SCHOOL LAWS 

B2SZR OF IOWA 



FROM THE CODE OF 1897, THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE 

CODE, 1913, AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL 

SUPPLEMENT, 1915. 



WITH THB 



ACTS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH AND THIRTY-EIGHTH 
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. 



A. M. DEYOE 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 



Published by 

THE STATE OF IOWA 

Des Moine* 

1919 



SCHOOL LAWS 

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FROM THE CODE OF 1897, THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE 

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SUPPLEMENT, 1915. 



CODE, 1913, AND THE SUPPLEMENTAL 
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WITH THE 



ACTS OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH AND THIRTY-EIGHTH 
GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. 



A. M. DEYOE 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 



Published by 

THE STATE OP IOWA 

Des Moines 

1919 






PREFACE 



The Department of Public Instruction is sending to county 
superintendents and school officers a copy of all school laws with- 
out annotations or decisions. The Thirty-seventh and Thirty- 
eighth General Assemblies amended many of the sections there- 
fore it was thought advisable to put out this publication for 
temporary use. You will observe that the amendments have 
been written into the law thus giving you the amended text of 
each section. Such a plan seemed advisable in view of, the 
fact that next year the Recodification Committee will report with 
a complete revision of the laws. This will necessitate a regular 
publication of the school code at an early date thereafter. 

We trust that school officers will retain the 1915 edition of 
the school laws and transmit them to their successors for future 
use as they will be especially valuable on account of the an- 
notations and decisions. 

A. M. DEYOE, 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 

Sec. 2627-a. Elective by people — term — vacancy. That the 
office of superintendent of public instruction is hereby made 
elective, and the election of said officer shall be submitted to the 
qualified voters of Iowa at the general election 'of 1918 and every 
four years thereafter. The term of such officer so elected shall 
commence at the expiration of the term of the superintendent of 
public instruction now in office, and continue until his successor 
is elected and qualified. Section twenty-six hundred twenty- 
seven-a (2627-a) supplement to the code, 1913, and all acts and 
parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [37 G 
A., ch. 318; 35 G. A., ch. 103, §1 ; 35 G. A., ch. 103.] 

Sec. 2627-b. Qualifications — oath. The superintendent of 
public instruction shall, at the time of his appointment, be a 
graduate of an accredited university or college, or of a four-year 
course above high school grade in an accredited normal school, 
and shall have had at least five years' experience as a teacher oi 
school superintendent. He shall, before entering upon his du- 
ties, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, which 
shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. [35 G. A. 
ch. 103 § 2.] 

Sec. 2627-c. General supervision — duties. The superintend 
ent of public instruction shall have general supervision and con^ 
trol over the rural, graded and high schools of the state, and 
over such other state and public schools as are not under the con- 
trol of the state board' of education, or board of control of state 
institutions, and his office shall be known as the department of 
public instruction. It shall be his duty: 

1. Inspection. To ascertain, so far as practicable, by inspection or 
otherwise, the conditions, needs and progress of the schools be- 
longing to his department. 

2. Recommendations. To suggest, through public addresses, pam- 
phlets, bulletins, and by meetings and conferences with school 
officers, teachers, parents, and the public generally, such changes 
and improvements as he may think desirable, and may publish 
and distribute such views and information as he may deem im- 
portant. 

3. Promotion of interest in education. To endeavor to promote 
among the people of the state a proper interest in the general sub- 



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ject of education, including industrial and commercial education, 
agriculture, manual and vocational training, domestic science 
and continuation work. 

4. Classification. To classify and define the various schools be- 
longing to his department, and to formulate suitable courses of 
study therefor, and to publish and distribute such classifications 
and courses of study. 

5. Officers' and teachers' reports — forms. To prescribe the re- 
ports, both regular and special, which shall be made by public 
school officers, superintendents and teachers, and other persons or 
officers having the custody or control of public school funds or 
property, and t6 prepare suitable forms therefor, and to furnish 
blanks for such reports as are to be made to him. 

6. Days for special observance. To publish and distribute from 
time to time leaflets and circulars relative to such days and' occa- 
sions as he may deem worthy of special observance in the public 

schools. 

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7. Appeals — opinions. To examine and determine all appeals made 
to him according to law and the rules relating thereto, and to 
prescribe rules of practice therefor not inconsistent with law. 
He shall also render written opinions upon questions submitted 
by school officers pertaining to their duties. 

8. Reports. He shall, on the first day of January of each year, re- 
port to the auditor of state the number of persons of school age in 
each county. He shall report biennially to the governor the conditions 
of the schools under his supervision, including the number and 
kind of school districts, the number of schools of each kind, the 
number and value of schoolhouses, the enrollment and attendance 
in each county for the previous year, any plans matured or meas- 
ures proposed for the improvement of the public schools, and 
such financial and statistical information as may be of public 
importance ; he may also include such general information relat- 
ing to educational affairs and conditions within the state or else- 
where, as he may deem necessary. 

9. Plans and specifications for buildings. .He shall, when deemed 
necessary, cause to be prepared and published a pamphlet con- 
taining suitable plans and specifications for public school build- 
ings, including the most approved means and methods of heating, 
lighting and ventilating the same, together with information and 
suggestions for the proper and economical construction thereof. 
It is hereby made the duty of the state architect to render such 
assistance and to perform such services in preparing such plans 
and specifications as may be requested by the superintendent of 
public instruction. 

10. Institutes. He shall appoint county educational meetings or 
institutes to be held in each county once each year and not more 



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than twice, and shall designate the time and place for holding 
them. The program therefor, and the instructors and lecturers 
therein, shall be subject to his approval. 

11. Examinations. He shall prepare and supply questions for the 
examination of applicants for teachers' certificates and for the ex- 
amination of pupils completing the eighth grade in the rural 
schools. 

12. Placement of teachers, (a) He shall assist in the place- 
ment of employment of teachers in public schools as hereinafter 
provided. 

(b) Any person having a certificate to teach in this state and 
who is deemed by this department to be a suitable person for 
teaching, shall on written application be entitled to enroll with 
the superintendent of public instruction under such regulations 
as he may prescribe. 

(c) Upon request he shall furnish information to boards of 
education, superintendents, principals, and other proper authori- 
ties of public schools, desiring to employ teachers, and under 
such regulations as he may prescribe, furnish teachers enrolled 
with the information relative to vacancies in public schools ; but 
no person connected with the office of the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction shall be held responsible or be understood to vouch 
for the fitness or success of any teacher who may secure a posi- 
tion through the agencies herein provided. 

(d) The superintendent of public instruction may employ 
such additional clerical help as may be necessary to carry out tht 
provisions of this act, and shall make and publish the necessary 
rules and regulations for carrying out said provisions, and for 
obtaining information as to the experience, qualifications and 
character of persons enrolled or seeking enrollment. 

(e) There is hereby appropriated from any funds in the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand 
five hundred dollars ($2,5,00.00) annually, for the purpose of car- 
rying out the provisions of this act. [38 G. A., ch. 298, 35 G. A., 
ch. 103.] 

In effect by publication April 29, 1919. 

Sec. 2627-d. OfHce — records — clerks — supplies. The superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall have an ofifice in the capitol. 
He shall file and preserve all reports, documents and correspond- 
ence that may be of permanent value, which shall be open to 
inspection under reasonable conditions, by any citizen of the 
state. He shall keep a record of the business transacted by hirh, 
and shall turn over to his successor all records", papers, reports, 
documents, books and other state property pertaining to his 
office. He shall be furnished by the executive council with suf- 
ficient office room and clerical and stenographic help, and with 
all necessary books, blanks, stationery, printing, postage and 



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office supplies, and with the reports of the supreme court of the 
state. [35 G. A., ch. 103, § 4.] 

Sec. 2627-e. School laws — publication. He shall every four 
years, if deemed necessary, cause to be printed in book form all 
school laws then in force, with such forms, rulings and decisions, 
and such notes and suggestions as may aid school officers in the 
proper discharge of their duties.; a sufficient number of copies 
shall be sent to the county superintendent of each county to sup- 
ply the school officers, directors, and superintendents therein. He 
may cause to pe printed in pamphlet form after each session of 
the general assembly, any amendments or changes in the school 
laws with necessary notes and suggestions, which shall be dis- 
tributed as above provided. [35 G. A., ch. 103, § 5.] 

Sec. 2627-f. Reports of funds or school property — delinquency. 

He may require from time to time reports under oath from all 
officers and persons who have any authority over, or who have 
any duties in connection with, public school affairs, or who have, 
or who have lately had, the custody or control of any public 
school funds or property. He shall furnish the proper blanks for 
such reports, and any such officer or person who unreasonably 
neglects or refuses to make a report required by the superintend- 
ent of public instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
[35 G. A., ch. 103, § 6.] 

Sec. 2627-g. Deputy — chief clerk — inspectors. He may ap- 
point a deputy whose appointment must be approved by the 
governor of the state. The qualifications of the deputy shall be 
the same as required by section two of this act. The deputy 
shall qualify in like manner as his principal and, in the absence 
or inability of the superintendent, shall perform the duties of the 
office. He shall also appoint a chief clerk and such regular in- 
spectors of the public schools of the state, including rural, graded 
and high schools, as he may deem necessary, not exceeding three. 
[35 G. A., ch. 103, § 7.] 

Sec. 2627-h. Salaries — expenses. From and after the taking 
effect of this act the salary of the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall be four thousand dollars per annum; the salary of his 
deputy shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum ; the 
salary of the regular inspectors in the department of public in- 
struction shall be two thousand per annum each ; the salary of 
the chief clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum, all such 
salaries to be paid monthly upon the warrant of the state 
auditor. The superintendent of public instruction and his 
deputy and the regular inspectors in his department shall also 
receive their actual necessary traveling expenses incurred in the 
performance of their official duties, to be allowed upon an 
itemized and verified account filed with and approved by the 
executive council and the state auditor who shall draw his 



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warrant on the state treasurer for the amount allowed. [35 G. 
A., ch. 103, § 8.1 

38 G. A., S. F. 541, provided that the deputy shall receive $2,700; chief 
clerk, $1,800, and inspectors $2,400 for two years. 

Sec. 2627-i. Repeal. Chapter one of title thirteen of the sup- 
plement to the code, 1907, as amended, relating to the office of 
public instruction is hereby repealed and all other acts and parts 
of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby 
repealed in so far as they may be inconsistent herewith. [35 G. 
A., ch. 103, § 9.] 

■ BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL EXAMINERS. 

Sec. 2628. Members. The educational board of examiners 
shall consist of the superintendent of public instruction, presi- 
dent of the university, president of the Iowa State Teachers Col- 
lege, president of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Me- 
chanic Arts; and two persons to fee appointed by the governor, 
one of whom shall be a woman, the appointees to hold office for 
a term of four years and be ineligible as his or her successor, the 
superintendent of public instruction to be by virtue of his office 
president of the board. [37 G. A., ch. 340; 19 G. A., ch. 167, § 1..] 

Sec. 2629. Meetings — examinations. The board shall meet 
for the transactions of business at such times and places as the 
president may direct, and shall annually hold at least two public 
examinations of teachers, to be conducted by a member or the 
secretary of the board or by such qualified person or persons as 
the board may select. All examinations shall be conducted in 
accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the board, not 
inconsistent with the laws of the state, and a record shall be 
kept of all of its proceedings. It may issue state certificates and 
state diplomas to such teachers as are found upon examination 
to possess a good moral character, thorough scholarship and 
knowledge of didactics, with successful experience in teaching, or 
with such other training and qualifications as the board may re- 
quire, or to those possessing satisfactory qualifications by reason 
of training and teaching experience of not less than fifteen years 
as the board in its discretion may determine. The examination 
for certificates and diplomas shall cover orthography, reading, 
writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, bookkeeping, 
physiology, history of the United States, algebra, botany, nat- 
ural philosophy, drawing, civil government, constitution and laws 
of the state, and didactics; those for diplomas, in addition to the 
foregoing, geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, zoology, geology, 
astronomy, political economy, rhetoric, English literature, gen- 
eral historv, and such other studies as the board may require. 
[38 G. A., ch. 280; 32 G. A., ch. 6, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 114, § 1 ; 28 
G. A., ch. 95, § 1 ; 19 G. A., ch. 167, §§ 2-4.] 

In effect by publication April 25, 1919, 



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Sec. 2630-b. Special certificates. The educational board of 
examiners may issue a special certificate to any teacher of music, 
drawing, penmanship, or other special ibranches, or to any pri- 
mary teacher, of sufficient experience, who shall pass such exam- 
ination as the board may require in the branches, and methods 
pertaining thereto, for which the certificate is sought. Such 
certificates shall be designated by the name of the branch and 
shall not be valid for any other department or branch. The 
board shall keep a complete register of all persons to whom cer- 
tificates or diplomas are issued. [28 G. A., ch. 96, § 2; 23 G. A.,, 
ch. 22.] 

Sec. 2630-c, Validation authorized. The state educational 
board of examiners is hereby empowered to validate certificates 
issued by state departments of education in other states, where 
such certificates were issued upon evidence of scholarship and 
experience equivalent to that required for like certificates under 
the laws of this state. Such validated certificate shall authorize 
the holder to teach in an}^ public school in the state for five years 
after date of such validation. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 1 ; 32 G. A., 
ch. 149.] 

Sec. 2631. How long valid — revocation — fees. A state certifi- 
cate shall authorize the holder to teach in any public school in 
the state for five years thereafter, and a diploma shall confer such 
authority for life ; but any certificate or diploma may be revoked 
by the board for sufficient cause, or such cause as would, if 
known at the time, have prevented issuance thereof, provided the 
holder of such certificate or diploma shall have due notice, and 
shall be allowed to be present and make his defense. For each 
certificate issued the applicant shall pay two dollars, and for each 
diploma five dollars, which may be required before the examina- 
tion is commenced. All moneys obtained from this source shall 
be paid into the state treasury. [32 G. A., ch. 6, § 3 ; 19 G. A., 
ch. 167, §§ 5, 6.] 

Sec. 2633. Account of moneys. The board shall keep an accu- 
rate and detailed account of all moneys received and expended, 
which, with a list of those receiving certificates or diplomas, shall 
be published by the superintendent of public instruction in his 
annual report. [19 G. A., ch. 167, § 9.] 

Sec, 2634-a. Compensation — secretary — employes — salariesi. 
"Each member of the board shall receive for the time actually 
employed in such service, his actual necessary expenses, and 
those not salaried officers or employes of the state or any insti- 
tution thereof shall be paid in addition, four dollars per day. The 
board shall have power to employ a secretary and prescribe his 
duties. He shall receive a salary not exceeding one hundred and 
fifty dollars per month and actual necessary expenses while en- 
gaged in the performance of his duties at places other than the 
capitol. The- board shall have powc- to employ such persons as 



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are necessary to assist in examinations and in reading answer 
papers and for clerical work and other necessary assistance. Per- 
sons so employed shall receive not to exceed fifty cents per hour 
for the time actually employed and actual traveling expenses to 
and from the place where their services are required. AH expen- 
ditures authorized to be made under the provisions of chapter 
two of title thirteen of the code and of the supplement to the 
code [1902] and amendments thereto and under the provisions of 
chapter one hundred twenty-two, acts of the thirty-first general 
assembly, and under the provisions of this act shall be certified 
by the chairman of the educational board of examiners to the 
executive council for payment. If found correct the executive 
council shall cause same to be paid from any funds paid into the 
state treasury under the provisions of section twenty-six hundred 
thirty-one of the code and chapter one hundred twenty-two, acts 
of the thirty-first general asseir^J^ly. and amendments thereto." 
[38 G. A., ch. 272; 36 G. A., ch. 320; 32 G. A., ch. 6, § 4; 
27 G. A., ch. 73,,% 1 ; 25 G. A., ch. 36; 19 G. A., ch. 167, § 8.] 

In operation by publication April 26, 1919. 

Sec. 2634-al. Printing. This act shall be construed as giving 
legal authority to the educational board of examiners to obtain 
all the necessary printing for the performance of their duties, as 
required by law, in the same manner as the printing is provided 
for state officers. [32 G. A., ch. 6, § 5.] 

NORMAL TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 2634-bl. Training of teachers for rural schools — normal 
courses in certain high schools. That section two of chapter one 
hundred thirty-one of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assem- 
bly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted 
in lieu thereof : 

For the purpose of increasing the facilities for training teachers 
for the rural schools, by requiring a review of such common 
branches as may be deemed essential by the superintendent of 
public instruction and for instruction in elementary pedagogy 
and the art of teaching elementary agriculture and home econom- 
ics, provision is hereby made for normal courses of study and 
training in such four-year high schools as the superintendent of 
public instruction may designate ; provided that such high schools 
shall be selected and distributed with regard to their usefulness 
in supplying trained teachers for the rural schools of all portions 
of the state, and with regard to the number of teachers required 
for rural schools in each portion of the state. It is further pro- 
vided that where a township high school or a consolidated school 
organized in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hun- 
dred forty-three of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly 
can meet the requirements of the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, it shall be given preference over a city high school. [35 G. 
A., ch. 242, § 1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 2.] 



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Sec. 2634-b2. Private and denominational schools. Private 
and denominatipnal schools are eligible to the provisions of this 
act, except as to receiving state aid. [34 G. A., ch. 131, § 3.] 

Sec. 2634-b3. State aid — reports — limitations. That section 
four of chapter one hundred thirty-one of the acts of the thirty- 
fourth general assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and 
the following enacted in lieu thereof: 

Each high school approved under the provisions of this act 
shall receive state aid to the amount of seven hundred fifty dollars 
per annum, payable in two equal installments at the close of each 
semester as hereinafter provided. The superintendent of each 
approved training school shall at the close of each semester file 
such report with the superintendent of public instruction as said 
officer may require. Upon receipt of a satisfactory report, the 
superintendent of public instruction shall issue a requisition upon 
the auditor of state for the amount due the school corporation 
of said high school for said semester, whereupon the auditor of 
state shall draw a warrant on the state treasury payable to said 
school corporation for the amount of said requisition and forward 
the same to the secretary of said school corporation. No high 
schools shall be approved as entitled to state aid unlessa class of 
ten or more shall have been organized, maintained and instructed 
during the preceding semester in accordance with the provisions 
of this act and the regulations of the superintendent of public 
instruction. [35 G. A., ch. 242, § 2 ; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 4.] 

Sec. 2634-b4. Inspector — salary — expenses. The appropria- 
tion provided by this act for instruction of pupils in high schools 
in the science and practice of rural school teaching and the teach- 
ing of elementary agriculture and home economics, raay be ex- 
pended in part for inspection and supervision of such instruction 
by the superintendent of public instruction and by such person 
as he may designate, and the expense of such inspection and 
supervision shall be paid out of said appropriation on vouchers 
certified by the superintendent of public instruction. In accord- 
ance with the foregoing provisions of this section, the superin- 
tendent of public instruction is authorized to appoint an inspec- 
tor of normal training in high schools and private and denomina- 
tional schools at a salary of not to exceed two thousand dollars 
per year and necessary traveling expenses while in the discharge 
of his duties. [34 G. A., ch. 131, § 5.] 

38 G. A., S. F. 541, provided a salary of $2,400 to inspectors. 

Sec. 2634-b5. Admission — course of instruction rules — re- 
quirements for graduation. The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall prescribe the conditions of admission to the normal 
training classes, the course of instruction, the rules and regula- 
tions under which such instruction shall be given and the require- 



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merits for graduation subject to the provisions of this act. [34 
G. A., ch. 131, § 6.] 

Sec. 2634-b6. Examination for graduation — failure in certain 
branches — fee. That the law as the same appears in section 
twenty-six hundred thirty-four^b six, supplement to the code, 
1913. be and the same is hereby repealed and the following en- 
acted in lieu thereof: 

"On the third Friday in January and the Wednesday and 
Thursday immediately preceding and on the third Friday in May 
and the Wednesday and Thursday immediately preceding, each 
year, in each high school, private and denominational school ap- 
proved under this act, an examination for graduation from the 
normal course shall be conducted under such rules as the state 
board of examiners shall prescribe, but the county superintend- 
ent of the county in which an approved high school may be lo- 
cated shall be designated as the conductor of said examination. 
Candidates for a certificate of- graduation from the normal course 
failing in the examination in one or more subjects, may be per- 
mitted to enter the above examinations or the regular July teach- 
ers' examination under such regulations as the superintendent of 
public instruction shall prescribe. 

Each applicant for a certificate of graduation from the normal 
course in a county shall pay a fee of one dollar which shall entitle 
him to one examination in each subject required, provided how- 
ever that applicants rewriting the examination in one or more 
subjects at the July teachers' examination as herein provided 
shall pay an additional fee of one dollar. One-half of the fees 
from the normal training examinations shall be paid into the state 
treasury on or before the first day of the succeeding month, and 
the remaining one-half shall be paid into the county institute 
fund of the county wherein the examination is held." [37 G. A., 
ch. 37; 36 G. A., ch. 100, § 1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 7.] 

Sec. 2634-b7. Certificat-e — license to teach — renewal. A certi- 
ficate of graduation from the normal training course provided for 
in this act shall be issued by the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, and shall be a valid license to teach in any public school in 
the state for a term of two years, subject to registration as pro- 
vided for other teachers' certificates. At the expiration of said 
certificate the superintendent of public instruction is authorized 
to renew it for a period of three years under the same conditions 
that apply to the renewal of the first grade uniform county certi- 
ficates. [35 G. A., ch. 242, § 4; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 8.] 

Sec. 2634-b8. Appropriation, That section nine of chapter 
one hundred thirty-one of the acts of the thirty-fourth general 
assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following 
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For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there 
is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, 
not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand 
dollars, availaible for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred fourteen, and the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dol- 
lars annually thereafter. [38 G. A., ch. 230; 35 G. A., ch. 242, 
§ 3;34G. A, ch. 131, § 9.] 

Sec. 2634-e. Record of students — sworn statement. At the 
close of each school year, the principal or superintendent of each 
accredited school shall file with the board of examiners a sworn 
statement, showing the name, age, post-office address, studies and 
attendance of each of the students in his school 'taking- the pre- 
scribed teachers' course. [29 G. A., ch. 115 § 4.] 

CERTIFICATION. 

Sec. 2634-f. Graduates from accredited colleges. That the 
state educational board of examiners may accept graduation 
from the regular and collegiate courses in the state university, 
state teachers college, state normal schools, and the state col- 
lege of agriculture and mechanic arts, and from other institutions 
of higher learning in the state having regular and collegiate 
courses of equal rank, as evidence that a teacher possesses the 
scholarship and professional fitness for a state certificate. [35 G. 
A., ch. 226, § 1 ; 32 G. A., ch. 148, § 1.] 

Sec. 2634-f 1. Graduates of accredited colleges — other states- 
same recognition. Graduates of colleges and schools located in 
other states than Iowa, having regular and collegiate courses of 
equal rank with the accredited colleges and schools of Iowa, may 
be given the same recognition as provided in section one of this 
act, provided they file with the board of educational examiners 
evidence of at least two years' successful experience as a teacher, 
principal or superintendent of schools. [35 G. A., ch. 226, § 2.] 

Sec. 2634-g. State certificates granted. That in all cases 
where such graduation shows the extent and quality of scholar- 
ship that is required by section twenty-six hundred twenty-nine 
of the supplement to the code, [1902] and when the teacher pos- 
sesses a good moral character and satisfies the board of being 
professionally qualified, there shall be granted by the said board 
of examiners a state certificate valid for five years to teach in any 
public school in the state. [32 G. A., ch. 148, § 2.] 

Sec. 2634-h. Renewal. All certificates referred to in section 
twenty-six hundred twenty-nine (2629), twenty-six hundred 
thirty-b (2630-b), twenty-six hundred thirty-c (2630-c), twenty- 
six hundred thirty-four-d (2634-d), twenty-six hundred thirty- 
four-f (2634-f), and twenty-six hundred thirty-four-g (2634-g), 
of the supplement to the code, 1907, shall be renewed for life by 
the state board of educational examiners upon the payment of a 



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fee of five dollars ($5.00) and proof of at least five years' success- 
ful teaching, three of which shall have been during the time the 
said certificate (with renewals) has been in force. [34 G. A., ch. 
130, § 3; 32 G. A., ch. 148, § 3.] 

Sec. 2634-hl. Conditions for renewal under certain sections — 
fee. All certificates referred to in sections twenty-seven hun- 
dred thirty-four-d and twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-e of the 
supplement to the code, 1907, in section twenty-seven hundred 
thirty-four-g of the supplement to the code, 1907, as amended by 
chapter one hundred eighty-one of the acts of the thirty-third 
general assembly and by section five of this act, and in section 
six of this act, shall be renewed for life by the state board of edu- 
cational examiners upon compliance by the holder with the fol- 
lowing conditions : 

1. The applicant shall show by testimonials from county or 
city superintendents or from the principals having immediate 
supervision of his school work and from a member of the local 
school board that he has had at least five years' continuous suc- 
cessful teaching experience (which may have been before or after 
the passage of this act), at least three of which shall have been 
immediately prior to the time validation is sought and under the 
grade of certificate for which such validation is desired; 

2. The standing of such applicant in the several branches 
shown upon his certificate shall average not less than eighty-five 
per cent, and in no branch shall the per cent, be less than eighty 
per cent., provided that in case the standing is less than the per 
cent, required, either average or special, the holder of the certi- 
ficate may, at any of the times provided in section twenty-seven 
hundred thirty-four-c of the supplement to the code, 1907, take 
an examination in any branch or branches he may desire and 
the per cent, then received shall be entered upon his certificate ; 

3. The applicant shall furnish proof of professional study 
during the entire five-year period such as is made necessary in 
the case of term renewals of certificates. 

Upon the issue of a life certificate as herein contemplated, the 
applicant shall pav a fee of five dollars to be turned into the 
state treasury. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 7.] 

Sec. 2634-h2. Lapse of certificate. All life certificates pro- 
vided for in this act shall lapse provided the holder shall not teach 
during a period of five successive years. [34 G. A., ch. 130, 
§10.] 

Sec. 2634-h3. Acts in conflict repealed. All acts and parts of 
acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. 
[34 G. A., ch. 130, § 13.] 



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FREE TUITION. 

Sec. 2733-al. Attendance at schools outside home district — 
tuition. 

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section 2733-al sup- 
plemental supplement to the code, 1915, be and the same is hereby- 
repealed and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: Any per- 
son of school age who is a resident of a school corporation which 
does not offer a four-year high school course and who has com- 
pleted the course as approved by the department of public in- 
struction for such corporation shall be permitted to attend any 
public high school or county high school in the state approved 
in like manner that will receive him. Any person applying for 
admission to any high school under the proyisions of this act 
shall present the officials of said high school the affidavit of his 
or her father, mother, guardian, or if he have neither, his next 
friend that such applicant is entitled to attend the public school 
and a resident of a school district of this state, specifying the dis- 
trict. He shall also present a certificate signed by the county 
superintendent showing proficiency in the common school 
branches, reading, orthography, arithmetic, physiology, gram- 
mar, civics of Iowa, geography. United States history, penman- 
ship and music. The school corporation in which such student 
resides shall pay to the secretary of the corporation in which such 
student shall be permitted to enter a tuition fee of eight dollars 
($8.00) per month, but in districts in which there is a city of the 
first class a tuition fee of eight dollars ($8.00) per month may be 
charged, in the high school department in the latter corporation 
during the time he so attends, not exceeding, however, a total 
period of four school years ; provided that such tuition shall in 
no case exceed the average cost of said tuition in such high 
school ; such payment to be made out of the general fund of the 
debtor corporation and such tuition fee as collected by the secre- 
tary shall be turned over by him with an itemized statement, to 
the treasurer of the school funds on or before February fifteenth 
and June fifteenth of each year. If payment is refused or neg^- 
lected the board of the creditor corporation shall file with the 
auditor of the county of the pupil's residence a statement certi- 
fied byits president specifying the amount due for tuition and for 
contingent expenses respectively, and the time for which the 
same is claimed; and the auditor shall transmit to the county 
treasurer an order directing such treasurer to transfer the amount 
of such account from the debtor corporation to the creditor cor- 
poation, and the treasurer shall pay the same in accordance 
therewith. No school corporation situated in a county main- 
taining a county high school shall be required to pay the tuition 
of pupils at any high school other than such county high school, 
but this shall not apply to pupils who, while residing at home, 
attend some high school other than that of the school corpo- 
ration in which they reside ; and the tuition to be paid by 



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school corporations in such county shall be three and one- 
half dollars ($3.50) per pupil per month, provided that, in 
counties having a high school where a child resides at home 
and attends a high school outside the district of his residence 
other than the county high school, and the school corpora- 
tion where the, child resides pays the tuition for such child, 
and at the end of the school year it is found that less pupils 
have attended the county high school from the district where 
such child resides than was entitled to attend under the county 
high school apportionment, then and in that case the school cor- 
poration where such child resides shall be entitled to be reim- 
bursed from the county high school funds for the tuition so paid, 
not exceeding in the aggregate an amount equal to the taxes con- 
tributed by such district to said county high school funds for the 
tax year preceding, fair and equitable credit being given to the 
county high school fund for pupils actually attending said county 
high school during said school year from the district where said 
child resides. The county superintendent shall, on being applied 
to for such purpose, determine in writing the amount due such 
corporation from the county high school fund, and furnish such 
corporation with a copy of such finding. Within twenty days 
thereafter such corporation may appeal to the district court from 
such finding by serving written notice on the county superin- 
tendent of the taking of such appeal. On the service of said no- 
tice the county superintendent shall file a copy of his finding in 
the office of the clerk of the district court and the clerk shall 
docket the cause without fee. The matter shall be tried on ap- 
peal as in equity and without formal pleading. The decision of 
the district court shall be final. The treasurer shall, upon the 
filing with him of any final decision, immediately transfer from 
the county high school funds to the credit of the corporation en- 
titled to the same the arjiount directed to be transferred. 

Sec. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, 
shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in 
the Des Moines Register, a newspaper published in Des Moines, 
Iowa, and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, a newspaper published 
in Council Bluffs, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 72; 37 G. A., ch. 156; 36 
G. A., ch. 234, § 2; 35 G. A., ch. 239; § 1; 35 G. A., ch. 240, 
§ 1 ; 34 a A., ch. 146, §§ 1-4.] 

Amendment of 38th G. A. in operation April 21, 1919. 

THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. 

Sec. 2734-a. Repeal. There is hereby repealed sections twen- 
ty-six hundred thirty-two, twenty-seven hundred thirty-four, 
twenty-seven hundred thirty-five, twenty-seven hundred thirty- 
six, twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven of the code, and sections 
twenty-seven hundred thirty-four, twenty-seven hundred thirty- 



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six, twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven of the supplement to the 
code, [-1902] and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 
[31 G. A., ch. 122, § 1.] 

Sec. 2734-b. Qualifications — powers and duties — deputy. That 
the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred thirty- 
four-b, supplement to the code, 1907, be and the same is hereby 
repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof : 

The county superintendent, who may be of either sex, shall be 
the holder of a regular five-year state certificate or a life diploma, 
and shall have had at least five years' experience in teaching or 
superintending, but this provision as to experience shall not ap- 
ply until September first, nineteen hundred eighteen, provided 
that any county superintendent of schools now serving shall be 
deemed eligible to reappointment or re-election under this act. 
The county superintendent shall, under the direction of the super- 
intendent of public instruction, serve as the organ of communi- 
cation between the department of public instruction and the 
various officers and instructors in his county, and shall transmit 
or deliver to them all books, pamphlets, circulars or communica- 
tions designed for them. He shall visit the different schools in 
his county at least once during the school year and also when 
requested by a majority of the directors of any school corpora- 
tion. He shall also, at the request of the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction, visit and report upon such schools as may be de- 
signated. He may appoint a deputy with the approval of the 
board of supervisors entered of record for whose acts he shall be 
responsible and who may act in his stead except in visiting 
schools and trying appeals, the salary of such deputy to be fixed 
by the board of supervisors, but the said salary shall not be less 
than seven hundred fifty dollars. He shall, on the first Monday 
of each month, file with the county auditor an itemized and veri- 
fied statement of his actual and necessary expenses incurred dur- 
ing the previous month in the performance of his official duties 
within his county, and such expenses shall be paid by the county 
board of supervisors out of the county fund, but the total amount 
so paid for any one year for such purposes shall not exceed the 
sum of four hundred dollars. [38 G. A., ch. 303; 36 G. A., 
ch. 129 ; §§ 1, 2 ; 35 G. A., ch. 107, § 3 ; 31 G. A., ch. 122, § 2 ; 27 G. 
A., ch. 85, § 1; 16 G. A., ch. 136, § 2; C. 73, §§ 1765, 1770; R. 
§ 2069.] • 

In effect by publication April 26, 1919. 

Sec. 2734-b 1. Term — vacancy. The term of office of the 
county superintendent of schools shall be for three years and 
until his successor is elected and qualified and such term shall 
begin on the first secular day of September after his election; and 
the terms of county superintendents now in office are hereby ex- 
tended until the first day of September, nineteen hundred fifteen, 
and until their successors are elected and qualified. Should a 
vacancy in such office occur, by death, removal, resignation, or 



SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 17 

otherwise, the county auditor shall at once call a special meeting 
for the purpose of filling such vacancy. [35 G. A., ch. 107, § 4.] 

Sec. 2734-b2. Acts in conflict repealed. All acts or parts of 
acts in conflict herewith are, so far as in conflict, hereby repealed. 
435 G. A., ch. 107. § 5.] 

CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. 

Sec. 2734-c. Examinations. On the last Friday, and Wednes- 
day and Thursday preceding, in the months of January, June, 
July and October, the county superintendent shall meet and, with 
such assistants as may be necessary, examine all applicants for . 
a teacher's certificate. Such examinations shall be held at the 
county seat, in a suitable room which shall be provided for that 
purpose by the board of supervisors ; but the county superinten- 
dent may at his discretion cause to be held at the time of any 
regular examination an additional examination at some other 
place in the county. The questions used in such examinations 
shall be furnished by the educational board of examiners, who 
shall cause the same to be printed, and the examinations shall 
be conducted strictly under rules prescribed by the board. 

On the last Friday of August and the Wednesday and Thurs- 
day preceding, the county superintendent of each county shall 
conduct an additional examination to which only such persons as 
file certificates of attendance during the summer immediately pre- 
ceding at a summer school approved for the twelve weeks of 
normal training provided for in section twenty-seven hundred 
thirty-four-p, supplement to the code, 1913, shall be admitted. 

• This examination shall be under the same regulations as to 
preparation of questions, grading of papers, granting of certifi- 
cates as the four examinations provided for in the first part of 
this section. [36 G. A., ch. 291, §1; 31 G. A., ch. 122, §3; 19 
G. A., ch. 161, § 2; 17 G. A., ch. 143, C. 73. §§ 1766, 1768, 1774; 
R., §§ 2066, 2068, 2073; C. '51, § 1148.] 

Sec. 2734-d. First grade certificates — subjects. The examina- 
tion for the first grade certificate shall include competency in and 
ability to teach orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geogra- 
phy, grammar, history of the United States, didactics, elemen- 
tary civics, elementary algebra, elementary economics, elemen- 
tary physics, elements of vocal music, physiology and hygiene, 
which in each division of the subject shall include special refer- 
ence to the effects of alcohol, stimulants and narcotics upon the 
human system. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 4.] 

Sec. 2724-e. Special certificates. A special certificate may be 
issued for any subject, or any group of subjects, taught in the 
public schools of Iowa, upon examination in such special subject 
or group of subjects and per cents therein such as are required for 



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the issue of a first grade county certificate. A special certificate 
shall be issued for a term of three years and shall be renewable 
under the same conditions as apply to the renewal of first grade 
certificates. It shall state the names of the subject for which it is 
issued, and shall not be valid for the teaching of any other sub- 
jects. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 4; 31 G. A., ch. 122, § 5.] 

Sec. 2734-f. Record of examinations. A record shall be kept by 
the county superintendent of all examinations taken within his 
county, with the name, age and residence of each applicant, and 
the date of the examination. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 6.] 

Sec. 2734-g. First grade certificates — renewal. Applicants who 
have taught successfully for at least thirty-six weeks, and whose 
examination entitles them to the first grade certificate, shall re- 
ceive the same for a term of three years from the date thereof, and 
such certificate shall be renewable without examination, provided 
the applicants shall show by testimonials from superintendents 
or principals who had immediate supervision of their professional 
study that at least one line of professional inquiry has been suc- 
cessfully conducted during the life of the certificate, it being made 
the duty of the board to forward with each certificate subject to 
renewal, outlines setting forth various lines of professional study. 
It is provided further that each application for renewal shall be 
accompanied by such proof of successful experience and pro- 
fessional spirit as the educational board of examiners may require. 
[34 G. A., ch. 130, § 5 ; 33 G. A., ch. 181, § 1; 31 G. A., ch. 122, 
§7 ; 27 G. A., ch. 86 ; § 2 ; 26 G. A., ch. 39 ; 21 G. A.., ch. 1, §3 ; C. 73, 
§§ 1767, 1771 ; R., §§ 2067, 2070.] 

Sec. 2734-h. Second grade certificates — renewal. Applicants 
whose examination entitles them to second grade certificates only, 
shall receive the same for not to exceed two years with the privi- 
lege of renewal of the same without further examination under 
the same conditions as govern the renewal of first grade certifi- 
cates. The holder of a second grade certificate, may at any of the 
examinations provided for in section twenty-seven hundred thirty- 
four-c (2734-c) of the supplement to the code, 1907, take an ex- 
amination in any one or more of the additional branches, required 
for the issue of a first grade certificate, or he may at any such 
time be re-examined in any branch or branches in which he de- 
sires to raise his grade, and in each case the new per cent shall be 
placed on his certificate, and when he has thus successfully passed 
in all the branches required for the issue of a first grade certificate, 
such certificate shall then be issued to him, provided he has had at 
least thirty-six weeks' successful experience in teaching; if not, 
then at the conclusion of such experience. In like manner third 
grade certificates may be changed into those of the second or 
first grade, and in all cases whether the certificate be of the first 
second or third grade, credit shall be given for all examinations 



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taken under the auspices of the board, it being the intention of the 
law that an examination once taken shall be final unless the certifi- 
cate holder desires to be re-examined in any one or more branches 
with a view of raising his per cent in such branches or his general 
average. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 6 ; 33 G. A., ch. 181, § 2 ; 31 G. A., ch. 
122, § 8.] 

Sec. 2734-i. Third grade certificates. Applicants whose ex- 
amination entitles them to a third grade certificate only, shall re- 
ceive the same for one year, at the end of which time upon proof 
of successful teaching and the paymentof a fee of one dollar 
($1.00), one renewal shall be granted. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 8; 31 
G. A., ch. 122, § 9.] 

Sec. 2734-j. Applicants without experience. Applicants who 
have had no experience in teaching, but whose examination en- 
titles them to the first grade, shall receive a second grade certifi- 
cate for two years, provided that when they have taught suc- 
cessfully under such certificate for not less than thirty-six weeks, 
they shall be entitled to receive a first grade certificate on the con- 
dition herein provided for a renewal of a certificate. [31 G. A., 
ch. 122, § 10.] 

Sec. 2734-k County certificates — renewal — conditions. That 
section twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-k (2734-k) of the supple- 
ment to the code, 1907, is hereby repealed. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 9 ; 
31 G. A., ch. 122, § 11.] 

Sec. 2734-1. Qualifications of applicants. Before admitting any 
one to the examination, the county superintendent must be satis- 
fied that the person seeking a certificate is of good moral character, 
of which fact he may require proof, and is in all respects other 
than in scholarship possessed of the necessary qualifications as 
an instructor. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 12 ; 27 G. A., ch. 86, § 2 ; 26 G. 
A., ch. 39; 21 G. A., ch. 1, §3; C. 73, §§ 1767, 1771; R., 
§§ 2067, 2070.] 

Sec. 2734-m, Examination papers graded-^certificates issued. 
As soon as the examination is completed the county superinten- 
dent shall forward to the superintendent of public instruction, a 
list of all applicants examined, with the standings of each in 
didactics and oral reading, and his estimate of each applicant's 
personality and general fitness, other than scholarship, for the 
work of teaching. He shall at the same time forward to the super- 
intendent of public instruction the answer papers written, with the 
exception of those in didactics. Under the supervision of the edu- 
cational board of examiners, the papers shall be graded and the 
scholastic qualifications determined. The result of such examina- 
tion of persons who pass the same shall be entered upon a certifi- 
cate provided by such board, and shall be transmitted to the 
county superintendent of the county in which the person entitled 
thereto resides. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 13.] 



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Sec. 2734-n Readers — Clerical help — compensation. Immedi- 
ately following each examination authorized by this act, the board 
of examiners shall call to their assistance a sufficient number of 
competent readers previously selected by the board, ten of whom 
shall be county superintendents. The county superintendents so 
chosen shall be known as head readers and shall also constitute 
a review board in cases of doubt. They shall also make a list of 
applicants from each county, nearest the passing mark for a third 
grade certificate. The head readers shall receive necessary travel- 
ing expenses only. All other readers shall receive actual travel- 
ing expenses to and from the capitol and not to exceed fifty cents 
an hour for time actually employed in reading and marking' 
answer papers. Such additional clerical help as may be required 
may be employed by the board at not to exceed thirty cents per 
hour for time actually employed. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 14.] 

Sec. 2734-0. Expenditures certified and paid. All expenditures 
authorized by this act shall be certified by the superintendent of 
public instruction to the executive council, who shall cause the 
auditor of the state to draw warrants therefor upon the treasurer 
of state, but not to exceed the fees paid into the treasury under 
the provisions of this act. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 15.] 

Sec. 2734-p. Qualifications of applicants fee. Each appli- 
cant for a certificate shall pay a fee of one dollar ($1.00), one-half 
of which shall be paid into the state treasury on or before the first 
day of the succeeding month, and one-half shall be paid into the 
county institute fund. Provided, however, that all applicants for 
teachers' certificates shall have had, before receiving a certificate 
to teach, at least twelve weeks of normal training and shall 
furnish a certificate frorn the institution where such training has 
been received, which certificate shall have printed thereon the 
subjects taken and the standing in each subject; but the examina- 
tion in all subjects other than didactics may be taken at any 
regular examination prior to, or after, the term of nomal train- 
ing has been taken ; the examination shall not be complete until 
the normal training has been certified as herein provided. 

It is further provided that this act shall not apply to the regular 
graduates of the State University, State Teachers' College, State 
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, any accredited college 
of the state, or any other school of like character outside the state. 

It is further provided that, in the case of graduates of four year 
courses in approved or accredited high schools, the grades made 
in didactics in an approved normal training course in any of the 
institutions mentioned in this section may be accepted by the state 
board of educational examiners and by the county superintendent 
in lieu of the examination in didactics. 

Sec. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall 
take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the 



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Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Capital both pub- 
lished in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 156; 35 
G. A., ch. 243, §'l ; 31 G. A., ch. 122, § 2.] 

Sec. 2734-pl. Experience as qualification. The provision of 
this act shall in no way bar any teacher who can furnish evidence 
of at least six months' successful teaching experience, provided 
such experience is not obtained on a provisional certificate. [38 
G. A., ch. 408; 35 G. A., ch. 243, § 2.] 

Sec. 2734-q. Registration. No person shall teach in any pub- 
lic school in this state whose certificate has not been registered 
with the county superintendent of the county in which such 
school is located. [34 G. A., ch. 130; 31 G. A., ch. 122, § 17.] 

Sec. 2734-r. Third grade certificates when not registered. In 
case a sufficient number of life diplomas, state certificates, first 
grade certificates, special certificates and second grade certifi- 
cates are held in any county to supply the schools thereof it 
shall not be incumbent on the county superintendent to regis- 
ter third grade certificates. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 18.] 

Sec. 2734-s. Special examination — provisional certificates. 
When a sufficient number of licensed teachers cannot be secured 
to fill the schools of any county, the board of examiners may, 
upon the request of the county superintendent, appoint a special 
examination for such county to be conducted in all respects as a 
regular examination and the answer papers to be forwarded to 
the president of the board as required in regular examinations, 
and thereupon provisional certificates may be issued by the edu- 
cational board of examiners, provided that the provisional certi- 
ficate shall be valid for the balance of the school year in which 
issued. [38 G. A., ch. 408; 31 G. A., ch. 122, § 19.] 

Sec. 2734-t. Certificates — where valid — revocations. All cer- 
tificates provided for in this act shall be valid in any county 
within the state, when registered in such county, but a provi- 
sional certificate shall be valid, upon registration, only in the 
county in which it is issued and shall be issued for the same time 
and subject to the same extension as a third grade certificate, 
but no person shall be entitled to receive more than one provi- 
sional certificate, except upon the approval of the county super- 
intendent. Any certificate or diploma issued by the board may 
be revoked for any cause which would have authorized or re- 
quired a refusal to grant the same, or in case the holder thereof 
violates any of the provisions of this act. [31 G. A., ch. 122, 
§ 20.] 

Sec. 2734-u. Revocation of certificate — charges — trial — appeal. 

When in the judgment of the county superintendent there is 
probable cause for the revocation of a certificate or diploma held 
by any teacher employed in his county, or when charges are pre- 
ferred, supported by affidavits charging incompetency, immor- 



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ality, intemperance, cruelty, or general neglect of the business of 
the school, the county superintendent shall within ten days trans^ 
mit to such person a written statement of the charges preferred 
and set the time and place for the hearing of the same, at which 
trial the teacher shall be privileged to be present and make de- 
fense. If in the judgment of the county superintendent there is 
sufficient grounds for the revocation of the certificate or diploma, 
he shall at once issue in duplicate an order revoking the certifi- 
cate or diploma, and the same shall become operative, and of full 
force and effect ten days after the date of its issue, one copy of 
the order to be mailed to the holder of the certificate and the 
other to be mailed to the superintendent of public instruction. 
Provided that the person aggrieved by such order shall have the 
right to appeal to the superintendent of public instruction within 
ten days from the date of such mailing and in case of appeal the 
revocation shall not be effective until the same is affirmed, after 
full hearing, by the superintendent of public instruction. Pro- 
vided further, that in the case of life diplomas or state certificates 
of whatever class, the revocation shall not be effective until af- 
firmed by the educational board of examiners after full review 
by said board. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 21.] 

Sec. 2734-v. List of persons holding certificates and attending 
normal institutes. The county superintendent shall annually, 
on the first Monday of September, file with the president of the 
educational board of examiners a list of all persons who for the 
preceding year have held certificates and have attended the nor- 
mal institute, with the number of days' attendance of each. A 
similar report of summer school attendance shall be secured by 
the president of the board. In any subsequent examination or 
renewal the board may give such credit for institute or summer 
school attendance as it may determine, any rule adopted to apply 
equally to all similar cases. [31 G. A., ch. 122, § 22.] 

COUNTY TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 

Sec. 2738. Normal institutes — adjournment of schools — at- 
tendance — lectures — funds — reports — summer schools — fees. 

That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred thir- 
ty-eight, supplement to the code, 1907, as amended by chapter one 
hundred thirty of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly, 
be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in 
lieu thereof : 

The county superintendent shall hold annually at least one, 
but not more than two, county teachers' institutes at such times 
as the schools of the county are generally in session; and shall, 
with the concurrence of the superintendent of public instruction, 
procure such assistance as may be necessary to conduct the same. 

The school board of every school district except in city inde- 
pendent school districts where twenty-five or more teachers are 



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regularly employed, shall adjourn the school or schools of said 
district for not less than two days in each school year in order 
to allow teachers to attend county teachers' institutes held in 
the county, without loss of salary. The county superintendent 
shall issue a certificate of attendance to each teacher showing- 
number of days of attendance at said institute, and any teacher 
failing to attend said teachers' institute two days shall forfeit 
his or her average daily salary for each day of non-attendance, 
except when excused by the county superintendent for physical 
disability to perform his or her duties in the school room. 

In city independent districts where twenty-five or more teach- 
ers are regularly employed, the county superintendent shall co- 
operate with the city superintendent in arranging for educational 
lectures relating to the professional work of the teacher and to 
such matters of public education as may best meet the needs of 
the teachers in such districts and at such times as may be ap- 
proved by the city superintendent and city board of education, in 
so far as the condition of the county institute fund shall permit. 
All arrangements concerning plans for professional teachers' 
meetings in said city districts shall be subject to final approval 
by the superintendent of public instruction. It shall be the duty 
of teachers in said districts to attend said lectures and the county 
superintendent shall issue a certificate of attendance showing 
number of lectures attended as provided by this act. 

To defray the expenses of said teachers' institutes, in addition 
to the fifty dollars received annually from the state and one-half 
of all examination fees collected in the county, one hundred fifty 
dollars from the general county fund shall be available for that 
purpose in counties having a population of thirty thousand or 
less, which amount shall be appropriated by the board of super- 
visors of such county at their January session in each year, and 
in counties of over thirty thousand, two hundred dollars shall be 
thus appropriated for such purpose. 

No part of the county teachers' institute fund received from 
the aforesaid sources may be used for any other purpose than to 
pay instructors, for special supplies needed in order to properly 
conduct said teachers' institutes, for janitor service, and rent for 
buildings in which to conduct said institute if necessary. 

On the first secular day of each month, the county superin- 
tendent shall transmit to the county treasurer all moneys received 
for examination fees and the state appropriation for institutes, 
which, together with the county appropriation, shall be desig- 
nated as the county teachers' institute fund; he shall also report 
monthly the names of all applicants for teachers' certificates to 
the county auditor. All disbursements of the institute fund 
shall be by warrants drawn by the county auditor, who shall 
draw said warrants upon the written order of the county super- 
intendent, and said written order must be accompanied by an 



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itemized bill for services rendered or expenses incurred in con- 
nection with the institute, which bill must be signed and sworn 
to by the party in whose favor the order is made and must be 
verified by the county superintendent. All said orders and bills 
shall be kept on file in the auditor's office until the final settle- 
ment of the county superintendent with the board of supervisors 
at the close of his term of office. No warrant shall be drawn by 
the auditor in excess of [the] institute fund then in the county 
treasury. The county superintendent shall furnish to the county 
board of supervisors a certified itemized account of the receipts 
and disbursements of all moneys collected and paid out by him 
for teachers' institutes and summer schools, which account they 
shall examine, audit and publish a summary thereof with the 
proceedings of 'the regular June meeting of the board. The county 
superintendent shall report to the board of supervisors on the 
first of January annually a summary of his official financial trans- 
actions for the previous year. 

County superintendents are hereby authorized by law to con- 
duct from four to six weeks' summer school where it may be 
deemed advisable, for the purpose of giving teachers and prospec- 
tive teachers academic instruction. A fee shall be collected from 
each attendant sufficient in the aggregate to meet all necessary 
expenses of said summer school. The fee so collected shall be 
paid into the county institute fund and a list of the names of all 
attendants shall be filed with the county auditor. Warrants for 
the purpose of paying instructors employed in summer schools 
shall be drawn by the county auditor, who shall draw said war- 
rant upon written order of the county superintendent, and said 
written order must be accompanied by a certified itemized bill 
for services rendered or expenses incurred in connection with 
said summer school, but no warrant shall be issued in excess of 
the fees received from the summer school and deposited with the 
county treasurer. This act shall not take effect until July first, 
nineteen hundred fourteen. [35 G. A., ch. 225, § 2; 34 G. A., ch. 
130, § 11 ; 30 G. A., ch. 113; 29 G. A., ch. 123, § 1 ; 27 G. A., ch. 87, 
§ 1 ; 17 G. A., ch. 54; 15 G. A., ch. 57; C. 73, § 1769.] 

Sec. 2739. Reports. The county superintendent shall annu- 
ally, on the last Tuesday in August, make a report to the super- 
intendent of public instruction, giving a full abstract of the sev- 
eral reports made to him by the secretaries and treasurers of 
school boards, stating the manner in and extent to which the re- 
quirements of the law regarding instruction in physiology and 
hygiene are observed, and such other matters as he may be di- 
rected by the state superintendent to include therein, or he may 
think important in showing the actual condition of the schools 
in his county. At the same time, he shall file with the county 
auditor a statement of the number of persons of school age in 
each school township, and independent district in the county. 
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of the college for the blind, the name, age, residence and postoffice 
address of every person, resident of the county, so blind as to be 
unable to acquire an education in the common schools ; to the 
superintendent of the institution for the deaf and dumb, with the 
same detail, all persons of school age whose faculties in respect 
to hearing or speaking are so deficient as to prevent them from 
acquiring an education in such schools ; and to the institution 
for the feeble-minded, all persons of like age who, because of 
mental defects, are entitled to admission therein. [31 G. A., ch. 
136, § 1; 21 G. A., ch. 1, § 2; C. 73; §§ 1772, 1775; R., 
§ 2071.] 

Sec. 2740.. Enforcing laws. The county superintendent shall 
see that all provisions of the school law, so far as it relates to the 
schools or school ofificers within his county, are observed and en- 
forced, specially those relating to the fencing of schoolhouse 
grounds with barl) wire, and the introduction and teaching of 
such divisions of physiology and hygiene as relate to the effects 
of alcohol, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, and 
those relating to compulsory attendance of pupils within the ages 
prescribed therein, and those relating to the exclusive use of the 
English language in the schools of his county as prescribed by 
law ; and to this end he may require the assistance of the county 
attorney, who shall at his request bring any action necessary to 
enforce the law or recover penalties incurred. [38 G. A., ch. 340; 
21 G. A., ch. 1, § 2 ; 20 G. A., ch. 103, § 2.] 

Sec. 2741. Penalty. Should he fail to make the report herein 
required of him to the superintendent of public instruction or the 
county auditor, he shall forfeit to the school fund of his county 
the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action brought by 
the county for the use of the school fund, and in addition shall be 
liable for all damages occasioned thereby. [C. '7Z, § 1773; R., 
§ 2072.] 

COMPENSATION. 

Sec. 2742. That section twenty-seven hundred forty-two 
(2742), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby 
repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 

"Each county superintendent of schools shall receive for his 
services the following compensation : In counties having a 
population of less than ten thousand (10,000), $1,600.00; in coun- 
ties having a population of ten thousand (10,000) and less than 
twenty thousand (20,000) $1,700,(X); in counties having a popula- 
tion of twenty thousand (20,000) and less than thirty thousand 
(30,000), $1,800.00; in counties having a population of thirty thou- 
sand (30,000) and less than forty thousand (40.000), $1,900.00; in 
counties having a population of fortv thousand (40,000) and less 
than fifty thousand (50,0(X)), $2,000.(X); in counties have a popula- 



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tion of fifty thousand (50,000) or more the sum of $2,500.00; and 
in all cases such superintendent shall receive the expenses of 
necessary office stationery and postage and those incurred in at- 
tending upon meetings called by the superintendent of public 
instruction ; claims therefor to be made by verified statements 
filed with the county auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the 
county treasurer therefor; provided, that where county superin- 
tendents are now receiving by action of the board of supervisors 
a sum greater than the amount fixed herein, this law shall not be 
construed so as to reduce said sum." 

"Any increase in salaries provided for in this act shall not apply 
after June 30th, 1921." 

The salaries of all county officials included in this act shall 
be paid out of the county treasurer in equal monthly install- 
ments. [38 G. A., ch. 293; 35 G. A., ch. 107, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 
124, § 1 ; 19 G. A., ch. 161, § 1 ; C., 73, § 1776; R., § 2074.] 

In effect by publication April 28, 1919. 

THE SYSTEM OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 2743. School districts — corporate powers. Each school 
district now existing shall continue a body politic as a school 
corporation, unless hereafter changed as provided by law, and as 
such may sue and be sued, hold property, and exercise all the 
powers granted by law, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all 
school matters over the territory therein contained. [C. '7Z, §§ 
1713, 1716; R., §§ 2022, 2026; C. '51, § 1108.] 

Sec. 2744., Names. District townships now existing shall here- 
after be called school townships, subdivision of which shall be 
called subdistricts. School corporations shall be designated as 
follows: The school township of (naming cifil township), in the 
county of (naming county), state of Iowa; or, the independent 
school district of (naming city, town or village, and if there are 
two or more districts therein, including some appropriate name or 
number), in the county of (naming county), state of Iowa; or, the 
rural independent school district of (some appropriate name or 
number), township of (naming township), in the county of (nam- 
ing county), state of Iowa. [27 G. A., ch. 91, § 1 ; C. 73, § 1716; 
R., §2026; C. '51, § 1108.] 

Sec. 2745-a. Duty of boards of school directors — fence. It shall 
be the duty of all boards of school directors in school districts 
where the schoolhouse site adjoins the cultivated or improved 
lands of another to build and maintain a lawful fence between 
said site and cultivated or improved lands. [27 G. A., ch. 88, § 1.] 

Sec. 2745-b. Rights of owner of adjoining lands. The owner 
of lands adjoining any schoolhouse site shall have the right to con- 



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nect the fence on his lands with the fences around any schoolhouse 
site, but he shall not be liable to contribute to the maintenance 
of the fence around said site. [27 G. A., ch. 88, § 2.] 

Sec. 2746. Annual meeting of corporation. A meeting of the 
voters of each school corporation shall be held annually on the 
second Monday in March for the transaction of the business there- 
of. Notice in writing of the place, day and hours during which 
the meeting will be in session, specifying the number of directors 
to be elected, and the terms thereof, and such propositions as 
will be submitted to and be determined by the voters, shall be 
posted by the secretary of the board in at least five public places 
in said corporation, for not less 'than ten days next preceding the 
day of the meeting. The president and secretary of the board, 
with one of the directors shall act as judges of the election. If 
any judge of election is absent at the organization of the meeting 
the voters present shall appoint one of their number to act in his 
stead. The judges of election shall issue certificates to the di- 
rectors elected. [19 G: A., ch. 51 ; 18 G. A., ch. 7, § 1 ; 18 G. A., ch. 
63; C. 73, §§ 1717, 1719; R., §§ 2027-8, 2031, 2033; C. '51 §§ 1111, 
1114-15.] 

Sec. 2747. Electors. To have the right to vote at a school meet- 
ing a person must have the same qualifications as for voting at a 
general election, and must be at the time an actual resident of the 
corporation or subdistrict. In any election hereafter held in any 
school corporation for the purpose of issuing bonds for school pur- 
poses or for increasing the tax levy, the right of any citizen to 
vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex, and 
women may vote at such elections the same as men, under the 
same restrictions and qualifications as far as applicable. [25 G. 
A., ch. 39.] 

Sec. 2748. Officers — qualifications.. A school officer or mem- 
ber of the board may be of either sex, and must at the time of 
election or appointment be a citizen and a resident of the corpora- 
tion or subdistrict, and over twenty-one years of age, and, if a 
man, he must be a qualified voter of the corporation or subdistrict. 
[16G. A., ch. 136.] 

Sec. 2749. Powers. The voters assembled at the annual meet- 
ing shall have power : 

1. To direct a change of text-books regularly adopted ; 

2. To direct the sale or make other disposition of any school- 
house or site or other property belonging to the corporation, and 
the application to be made of the proceeds of such sale ; 

3. To determine upon added branches that shall be taught, 
but instruction in all branches except foreign languages shall be 
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4. To instruct the board that school buildings may or may not 
be used for meetings of public interest ; 

5. To direct the transfer of any surplus in the schoolhouse 
fund to the general fund ; 

6. To authorize the board to obtain, at the expense of the cor- 
poration, roads for proper access to its schoolhouses ; 

7. To vote a schoolhouse tax, not exceeding ten mills on the 
dollar in any one year, for the purchase of grounds, construction 
of schoolhouses, the payment of debts contracted for the erection 
of schoolhouses, not including interest on bonds, procuring libra- 
ries for and opening roads to schoolhouses. ■ 

The board may, or, upon the written request of five voters of 
any rural independent district, or of ten voters of any school 
township, or of twenty-five voters of any city or town independ- 
ent district having a population of five thousand or less, or of 
fifty voters of any other city or town independent district, shall, 
provide in the notice for the annual meeting for submitting any 
proposition authorized by law to the voters. All propositions 
shall be voted upon by ballot in substantially the following form : 
"Shall a change of text-books be directed?" (or other questions 
as the case may be) ; and the voter shall designate his vote by 
writing the word "yes" or "no" in an appropriate place on the 
ballot. [37 G. A., ch. 386, § 2; 21 G. A., ch. 131, § 1 ; 19 G. A., 
ch. 51 ; 18 G. A., ch. 63; C. 73, §§ 1717, 1807; R., §§ 2027-8, 2033; 
C. '51, §§ 1114, 1115.] 

Sec. 2750. Special meeting. The board of directors may "call 
a special meeting of the voters of any school corporation by giv- 
ing notice in the same manner as for the annual meeting, which 
shall have the powers given to a regular meeting with reference 
to the sale of school property and the application to be made of 
the proceeds, and to vote a schoolhouse tax for the purchase of a 
site and the construction of a necessary schoolhouse, and for ob- 
taining roads thereto. [28 G. A., ch. 104, § 1 ; 24 G. A., ch. 21 ; 
18 G. A., ch. 84.] 

Sec. 2751. Subdistrict meeting. The meeting of the voters of 
each subdistrict of a school township shall be held annually on 
the first Monday in March, and shall not organize earlier than 
nine o'clock a. m., nor adjourn before twelve o'clock m. Notice 
in writing of the time and place of such meeting and the amount 
of schoolhouse tax 'to be voted shall be given by its director, or 
if there is none by the school township secretary, by posting in 
three public places in the subdistrict for five days next preceding 
the same. The voters shall select a chairman and secretary of 
the meeting who shall act as judges of election, and shall also 
elect a director for the subdistrict by ballot. The vote shall be 
canvassed by the judges of election, and the person receiving the 



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highest vote shall be declared elected. [22 G. A., ch. 51 ; 18 G. 
A., ch. 7, § 1; C. 73, §5$ 1718-19, 1789; R., §§ 2030-1; C. '51, § 
nil.] 

Sec. 2752. Number of directors. The board of directors of a 
school township shall be composed of one director from each sub- 
district. But when there, is an even number of subdistricts an- 
other director shall be elected at large by all the voters of the 
school township. When the school township is not divided into 
subdistricts, a board of three directors shall be elected at large, 
on the second Monday in March, by all the voters of the school 
•township. [27 G. A., ch. 92, § 1 ; 15 G. A., ch. 27; C. 73, §§ 1720- 
1 ; R., §§ 2031, 2035. 2075-6; C. '51, §§ 1112, 1721.] 

Sec. 2753. Special schoolhouse tax. At the annual subdistrict 
meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, the vot- 
ers may vote to raise a greater amount of schoolhouse tax than 
that voted by the voters of the school township, ten days' 
previous notice having been given, but the amount so voted, in- 
cluding the amount voted by the school township, shall not ex- 
ceed in the aggregate the sum of fifteen mills on the dollar. The 
sum thus voted shall be certified forthwith by the secretary of 
said subdistrict meeting to the secretary of the school township, 
and shall be levied by the board of supervisors only on the prop- 
erty within the subdistrict. [C. '7Z, § 1778; R., §§ 2033-4, 2037, 
2088.] 

Sec. 2754. Elections in independent districts tie vote — nom- 
ination — ballot. At the annual meeting in all independent dis- 
tricts members of the board shall be chosen by ballot. In any 
district including all or part of a city of the first class, or a city 
under special charter, the board shall consist of seven members, 
three of whom shall be chosen on the second Monday ia March. 

1898, two on the second JNIonday in March, 1899, and two on the 
second Monday in March, 1900. In all other independent city, 
town or village districts, and in all rural independent districts 
where the board now consists of six members the board shall con- 
sist of five members, one of whom shall be chosen on the second 
Monday in March, 1898, two on the second Monday in March, 

1899, and two on the second Monday in March, 1900. In all 
independent city, town, or village districts where the board now 
consists of three members such board shall hereafter consist of 
five members, three of whom shall be elected on the second Mon- 
day in March, 1898, one for one year, one for two years, and one 
for three years. In all other rural independent districts the board 
shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be chosen on 
the second Monday in March, 1898, and one each year thereafter. 
In districts composed in whole or in part of cities or towns, a 
treasurer shall be chosen in like manner, whose term shall begin 
on the first day of July, unless that date falls on Sunday, in which 
case, on the day following, and continue for two years, or until 



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his successor is elected and qualified. The term of office of the 
incumbent treasurer in said districts shall expire on the third 
Monday in March, 1898. In such districts the polls must remain 
open not less than five hours and in rural independent districts 
and school townships not less than two hours. In each case the 
polls shall open at one o'clock p. m., except as provided in sec- 
tion twenty-seven hundred and fifty-six of this chapter. A tie 
vote for any elective school office shall be publicly determined by 
lot forthwith, under the direction of the judges. 

The names of all persons nominated as candidates for office in 
all independent city or town districts shall be filed with the sec- 
retary of the school board not later than seven days previous to 
the day on which the annual school election is to be held, each 
candidate to be nominated by a petition signed by not less than 
ten qualified electors of the district. The 'secretary of the school 
board shall cause to be printed, ballots upon which shall appear 
in alphabetical order the names of all candidates for each office, 
filed as herein provided, and a blank line for each such officer to 
be elected, there shall be at the left of each name and each blank 
line a square and there shall also be a direction to the voter as to 
the number of candidates to be voted for at said school election. 
Ballots shall be printed upon plain substantial paper of uniform 
quality and shall have no party designation or mark whatever. 
The secretary of the board shall cause to be delivered at the sev- 
eral polling places a sufficient number of ballots. In all other 
respects the said school election in independent city or town dis- 
tricts shall be conducted under the general election laws of the 
state of Iowa, so far as same may be applicable. [35 G. A., ch. 
245, § 1 ; 31 G. A., ch. 136, § 2; 27 G. A., ch. 93, § 1 ; 27 G. A., ch. 
91, 1 2; 22 G. A., ch. 51; 18 G. A., ch. 7, § 2; C. 73, §§ 1789, 
1808.] 

Sec. 2755. Election precincts — register of voters — notice. That 
section two thousand seven hundred fifty-five (2755) supplement 
to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the 
following enacted in lieu thereof: 

Each school corporation having five thousand or more inhab- 
itants may be divided into such number of precincts as the board 
of directors shall determine, in each of which a poll shall be held 
at a convenient place, fixed by the board of directors, for the re- 
ception of the ballots of voters residing in such precinct. The 
clerk of the city shall furnish to the board of directors the last 
registers of elections, and these registers shall be used at and 
have the same force and effect at school elections held under this 
section in reception of votes thereat, as at general elections. The 
board of directors of such school corporation, on or before the 
last Monday preceding such election shall appoint two suitable 
persons to be registrars in each of the election precincts of such 
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shall have the same qualification as registrars appointed for gen- 
eral elections and shall qualify in the same manner, and receive 
the same compensation to be paid by the school corporation. The 
registrars shall meet on the day of the election at the voting place 
in the precinct in which they have been appointed and shall hold 
continuous session from nine o'clock in the forenoon until seven 
o'clock in the afternoon. Any person claiming to be a voter, and 
who is not already registered in the proper precinct, may appear 
before them in the election precinct where he claims he is entitled 
to vote and make and subscribe under oath a statement in the 
registry book, which oath and statement shall be of the same 
general character as that prescribed by section ten hundred sev- 
enty-seven of the code, and shall thereupon be granted a certifi- 
cate of registration. Nothing in this section shall be construed 
to prohibit women from voting at all elections at which they are 
entitled to vote. The secretary must post a notice of the meet- 
ing in a public place in each precinct at least ten days before the 
meeting, and by publication once eaeh week for two consecutive 
weeks preceding the same in some newspapef, published in the 
corporation, such notice to state the time, respective voting pre- 
cincts, and the polling place in each precinct, and also to specify 
what questions authorized by law, in addition to the election of 
director or directors, shall be voted upon and determined by the 
voters of the several precincts. 

"No register shall be prepared nor shall registration be re- 
quired in any school corporation containing a city in which regis- 
tration is not required at the general or city elections." [37 G. 
A., ch. 334; 37 G. A., ch. 225; 31 G. A., ch. 9, § 3 ; 29 G. A., ch. 
125, §§ 1, 2; 28 G. A., ch. 105, § 1 ; 18 G. A., ch. 8. §§ 1-4] 

Sec. 2756. Conduct of elections. As judges of the election re- 
ferred to in the preceding section, the board shall appoint three 
voters of the precinct, one of whom shall act as clerk, who shall 
be sworn as provided in case of a general election. Such judges 
may or may not be members of the board, as the board may de- 
termine, proyided that not more than one member of the school 
board shall act as such judge at any one voting precinct. If 
any person so appointed fails to attend, the judge or judges at- 
tending shall fill the place by the appointment of any voter pres- 
ent, and like action shall follow a refusal to serve or to be sworn. 
Should all of the appointees fail to attend, their places shall be 
filled by the voters from those in attendance. The board shall 
provide the necessary ballot box and poll book for each precinct, 
and the judges shall make and certify a return to the secretary of 
the corporation of the canvass of the votes for ofiice and upon 
each question submitted. On the next Monday after the meet- 
ing the board shall canvass the returns made to the secretary, 
ascertain the result of the voting with regard to every matter 
voted upon, declare the same, cause a record to be made thereof, 
and at once issue a certificate to each person elected. At all meet- 



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ings held under this and the next preceding section, the polls 
shall be kept open from nine o'clock a. m. until seven o'clock p. 
m. [35 G. A., ch. 245, § 2; 18 G. A., ch. 8, §§ 5, 6.] 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS— ORGANIZATION— OFFICERS— POWERS. 

Sec. 2757. Meetings of directors — election of officers. The 

board of directors of all independent city, town and village cor- 
porations, school townships maintaining school or schools with 
high school departments, and consolidated independent school 
districts shall organize on the third Monday in March, and those 
of all other school corporations on the first day of July, unless 
that date falls on Sunday, in which case on the day following. 
Such organizations shall be effected by the election of a presi- 
dent from the members of the board, who shall be entitled to vote 
as a member. Such special meetings may be held as may be 
determined by the board, or called by the president, or by the 
secretary upon the written request of a majority of the members 
of the board, upon r^otice specifying the time and place, delivered 
to each member in person, but attendance shall be a waiver of 
notice. Such meetings shall be held at any place within the civil 
township in which the corporation is situated. 

On the first day of July, unless that date falls on Sunday, in 
which case on the day following, the board of all independent 
city, town and village corporations and the retiring board in all 
other school corporations shall meet, examine the books of, and 
settle with the secretary and treasurer for the year ending on 
the thirtieth day of June preceding, and for the transaction of 
such other business as may properly come before it. On the same 
day the board of each independent city, town and village cor- 
poration, except as provided in section twenty-seven hundred 
fifty-four (2754) of this chapter, and the new board of every other 
school corporation, shall elect from outside the board a secretary 
and treasurer, but in independent districts no teacher or other 
employee of the board shall be eligible as secretary. All officers 
shall be elected by ballot and the vote shall be recorded by the 
secretary. Should the secretary or treasurer fail to report as 
provided in sections twenty-seven hundred sixty-five (2765) and 
twenty-seven hundred sixty-nine (2769) of this chapter, it shall 
be the duty of the new board to take any action necessary to 
secure a proper settlement. [36 G. A., ch. 69, § 1 ; 31 G. A. 
ch. 136, § 3; 18 G. A., ch. 176; 15 G. A., ch. 27; C. HZ, §§ 1721- 
2; R., §§ 2035-6, 2076; C. '51, § 1121.] 

Sec. 2758. Qualification of directors — vacancies. Any member 
of the board may administer the oath of qualification to any mem- 
ber elect, and to the president of the board. Each director 
elected in March, 1906, or at any regular election thereafter, shall 
qualify on or before the date for the organization of the board 
of the corporation in which he was elected by taking an oath to 
support the constitution of the United States and that of the 



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state of Iowa, and that he will faithfully discharge the duties of 
his office ; and shall hold the office for the term to which he is 
elected, and until a successor is elected and qualified. In case 
of a vacancy, the office shall be filled by appointment by the board 
until the next annual meeting. In all rural school corporations, 
the term of office of directors whose terms expire on the third 
Monday in March, 1906, is hereby extended to July 1, 1906. [31 
G. A., ch. 137; C. 73, §§ 1752, 1790; R., §§ 2032, 2079; C. '51, 
§§ 1113, 1120.] 

Sec. 2759. President — employment of counsel. The president 
of the board of directors shall preside at all of its meetings, sign 
all warrants and drafts, respectively, drawn upon the county 
treasurer for money apportioned and taxes collected and belong- 
ing to his school corporation, and all orders on the treasurer 
drawn as provided by law, sign all contracts made by the board, 
and appear in behalf of his corporation in all actions brought by 
or against it, unless individually a party, in which case this duty 
shall be performed by the secretary. In all cases where actions 
may be instituted by or against any school officer to enforce any 
provision of law, the board may employ counsel, for which the 
school corporation shall be liable. [19 G. A., ch. 46; C. 73, §§ 
1739-40; R., §§ 2039-40; C. '51, §§ 1122-3, 1125.] 

Sec. 2760. Bonds of secretary and treasurer. The secretary 
and treasurer shall each give bond to the school corporation in 
such penalty as the board may require, and with sureties to be 
approved by it, which bond shall be filed with the president, con- 
ditioned for the faithful performance of his official duties, but in 
no case less than five hundred dollars. Each shall take the oath 
required of civil officers, which shall be indorsed upon the bond, 
and shall complete his qualification within ten days. In case of 
a breach of the bond, the president shall bring action thereon in 
the name of the school corporation. [15 G. A., ch. 27; C. '7Z, §§ 
1721, 1731 ; R., §§ 2035, 2037, 2076; C. '51, § 1144.] 

Sec. 2761. Duties of secretary. The secretary shall file and 
preserve copies of all reports made to the county superintendent, 
and all papers transmitted to him pertaining to the business of 
'the corporation ; keep a complete record of all the proceedings 
of the meetings of the board and the voters of the corporation in 
separate books; keep an accurate, separate account of each fund 
with the treasurer, charge him with all warrants and drafts drawn 
in his favor, and credit him with all orders drawn on each fund ; 
and he shall keep an accurate account of all expenses incurred by 
the corporation, and present the same to the board for audit and 
payment. At the annual meeting he shall record, in a book pro- 
vided for that purpose, the names of all persons voting thereat, 
the number of votes cast for each candidate, and for and against 
each proposition submitted. The secretary of each independent 
town or city district shall file monthly, on or before the tenth day 
of each month, with the board of directors, a complete statement 



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of all receipts and disbursements from the various funds during 
the preceding month, and also the balance remaining on hand in 
the various funds at the close of the period covered by said state- 
ment, which monthly statements shall be open to public inspec- 
tion. [35 G. A., ch. 246, § 1 ; C. 73, §§ 1741, 1743; R., §§ 2041-2; 
C. '51, §§ 1126, 1128.] 

Sec. 2762. Warrants. He shall countersign all warrants and 
drafts upon the county treasurer drawn or signed by the presi- 
dent; draw each order on the treasurer, specify the fund on which 
it is drawn and the use for which the money is appropriated; 
countersig^n and keep a register of the same, showing the num- 
ber, date, to whom drawn, the fund upon which it is drawn, the 
purpose and the amount; and at each regular annual meeting 
furnish the board with a copy of the same. [31 G. A., ch. 136, 
§ 4; 19 G. A., ch. 46; C. 73, §§ 1739, 1782; R., §§ 2039, 2061 ; C. 
'51, §§ 1122-3.] 

Sec. 2763-a. Notice of special meetings in school corporations 
— divided into precincts. The secretary of the board of directors 
of any school corporation which is divided into precincts, shall 
give notice of all special meetings of the voters, as provided by 
section twenty-seven hundred fifty-five (2755) of the supplement 
to the code (1902). Each notice shall state the date, place and 
hours during which the meeting will be in session, and the object 
of the meeting. [31 G. A., ch. 138, § 2.] 

Sec. 2763-b. Notice of special meetings in independent corpo- 
rations of less than five thousand. The secretary of the board 
of directors for any school corporation, located wholly within or 
partly within the corporate limits of cities of the first class, cities 
of the second class, or incorporated towns, which may not have 
adopted the provisions of section twenty-seven hundred fifty-five 
(2755) of the supplement to the code (1902) and divided into pre- 
cincts, shall give notice of special meeting of the voters in the 
same manner as for the annual meeting, by posting at least five 
notices in five public places within said corporation, for not less 
than ten days next preceding the day of special meeting. Each 
notice shall state the date, place and hours during which the, 
meeting will be in session, and the object of the meeting. [31 G. 
A., ch. 138, § 3.] 

Sec. 2763-c. Notice of special meetings in school townships. 

The secretary of the board of directors for any school township 
or for any school corporation not included in the preceding sec- 
tions, shall give ten days' printed or written notice of special 
meeting to the voters, posted in at least five public places within 
the corporation. The notice shall be posted at the door of each 
schoolhouse, and also at or near the last place of meeting, and 
each notice shall state the date, place and hours during which the 
meeting will be in session and the object of the meeting. [31 G. 
A., ch. 138, § 4.] 



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Sec. 2764. Register of persons of school age. He shall, be- 
tween the first day of June and the first day of July of each year, 
enter in a book made for that purpose, the name, sex and age of 
every person between five and twenty-one residing in the corpo- 
ration, together with the name of the parent or guardian. [31 
G. A., ch. 136, § 5 ; C. '97, § 2764.] 

Sec. 2765. Reports. He shall notify the county superin- 
tendent when each school is to begin and its length of term, and 
within five days after the regular July meeting in each year, file 
with the county superintendent a report which shall give the 
nurtrber of persons in the corporation, male or female, of school 
age, the number of schools and branches taught, the number of 
scholars enrolled and average attendance in each school, the num- 
ber of teachers employed and the average compensation paid per 
month, distinguishing the sexes, the length of school in days, 
and the average cost of tuition per month for each scholar, the 
text-books used, number of volumes in library, the value of ap- 
paratus belonging to the corporation, the number of schoolhouses 
and their estimated value, the name, age, and postoffice address 
of each deaf and dumb, or blind person in the corporation between 
the ages of five and twenty-one years, and this shall include those 
who are so blind or deaf as to be unable to obtain an education 
in the common schools, a like report as to all feeble-minded chil- 
dren of and between such ages, and the number of trees set out 
and in a thrifty condition on each schoolhouse ground. [31 G. 
A., ch. 136, § 6 ; 19 G. A., ch. 23, § 3 ; 16 G. A., ch. 1 12, § 1 ; C. 73, 
§§ 1744-5; R., § 2046; C. '51, §§ 1127-8.] 

Sec. 2766. Officers reported. He shall report to the county 
superintendent, auditor and treasurer the name and postoffice 
address of the president, treasurer and secretary of the board as 
soon as practicable after the qualification of each. [C. '73, § 
1736.] 

Sec. 2767. Certifying tax. Within five days after the board 
has fixed the amount required for the general fund,. he shall cer- 
tify to the board of supervisors the amount so fixed, and at the 
same time shall certify the amount of schoolhouse tax voted at 
any regular or special meeting. In case a schoolhouse tax is 
voted by a special meeting after the above certificate has been 
made and prior to the first day of September following, he shall 
forthwith certify the same to the board of supervisors. He shall 
also certify to such board any provision made by the board of 
directors for the payment of principal or interest of bonds law- 
fully issued. [Z7 G. A., ch. 386, § 3; C. '7Z, §§ 1777, 1823; R., 
§§ 2037, 2044.] 

Sec. 2768. Duties of treasurer — payment of warrants — deposit 
of funds — interest. The treasurer shall receive all moneys be- 
longing to the corporation, pay the same out only upon the order 
of the president countersigned by the secretary, keeping an accu- 



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rate account of all receipts and expenditures in a book provided 
for that purpose. He shall register all orders drawn and reported 
to him by the secretary, showing the number, date, to whom 
drawn, the fund upon which drawn, the purpose and amount. 
The money collected by tax for the erection of schoolhouses and 
the payment of debts contracted therefor shall be called the 
schoolhouse fund ; the money collected by tax voted or the pro- 
ceeds of the sale of bonds valid for the purpose of building school- 
houses shall be called the schoolhouse fund, and all other moneys 
received for any other purpose shall be called the general fund ; 
and that received for the payment of teachers, the teachers' fund : 
and he shall keep a separate account with each fund, paying no 
order that fails to state the fund upon which it is drawn and the 
specific use to which it is to be applied. Whenever an order can- 
not be paid in full out of the fund upon which it is drawn, partial 
payment may be made. All school orders shall draw lawful in- 
terest after being presented to the treasurer and by him indorsed 
as not paid for want of funds. It is hereby made the duty of the 
treasurer of each school corporation to deposit all funds in his 
hands as such treasurer in some bank or banks in the state at 
interest at the rate of at least two per cent, per annum on ninety 
per cent, of the daily balances payable at the end of each month, 
all of which shall accrue to the benefit of the general fund of such 
school corporation ; but before such deposit is made, such bank 
shall file a bond with sureties to be approved by the treasurer 
and the board of directors of such corporation in double the 
amount deposited, conditioned to hold the school corporation 
harmless from all loss by reason of such deposit or deposits ; pro- 
vided that in cases where an approved surety company's bond 
is furnished, said bond may be accepted in an amount equal to 
ten per cent more than the amount deposited. Said bond shall 
be filed with the president of the school board and action may be 
brought thereon either by the treasurer or the school corpora- 
tion as the board may elect. [37 G. A., ch. 386, § 4; 35 G. A., ch. 
247, § 2; 31 G. A., ch. 139; C. 73, §§ 1747-50; R., §§ 2048-50; C. 
'51, §§ 1138-40.] 

Sec. 2769. Financial statement. He shall render a statement 
of the finances of the corporation whenever required by the board, 
and his books shall always be open for inspection. He shall make 
an annual report to the board at its regular July meeting, which 
shall show the amount of the general fund, and the schoolhouse 
fund held over, received, paid out, and on hand, the several funds 
to be separately stated, and he shall immediately file a copy of 
this report with the county superintendent. [37 G. A., ch. 386. § 
5; 31 G. A., ch. 136. § 7; 16 G. A., ch. 112, § 2; C. 73,^ 1751; R., 
§ 2051; C. '51, § 1141.] 

Sec. 2770. Surrendering office to successor. Each school of- 
ficer, upon the termination of his term of office, shall immediately 
surrender to his successor all books, papers and moneys pertain- 



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ing or belonging to the office, taking a receipt therefor. [C. 73, 
§ 1791 ; R., § 2080.] 

Sec. 2771. Quorum of board — filling vacancies. A majority of 
the board of directors of any school corporation shall constitute 
a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may 
adjourn from time to time. Vacancies occurring among the offi- 
cers or members shall be filled by the board by ballot, and the 
person receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared 
elected, and shall qualify as if originally elected or appointed. 
When the board is reduced below a quorum, by resignation or 
otherwise, the secretary of the board, or if there be no secretary, 
the county superintendent shall call a special election to fill the 
vacancies, giving notice in the same manner as for the annual 
meeting on the second Monday in March. In the case of any 
school corporation, including consolidated school districts, where 
no director has been elected or where no director who has been 
elected has qualified, the county superintendent of the county in 
which said district or the larger portion of said district is located 
shall be authorized and empowered to appoint a board of direc- 
tors until their successors have been elected and qualified. The 
county superintendent, when making such appointments to fill 
vacancies, shall designate which term or terms each director ap- 
pointed shall fill. [38 G. A., ch. 201 ; 32 G. A., ch. 150; 28 G. A., 
ch. 106; 24 G. A., ch 19; C. 73, §§ 1730, 1738; R., §§ 2037-38.] 

Sec. 2772. Temporary officers — course of study — regulations 
— use of tobacco prohibited. The board shall appoint a tempo- 
rary president and secretary, or either of them, in the absence 
of the regular officers, and shall prescribe a course of study for 
the schools of the corporation, make rules and regulations for 
its own government and that of the directors, officers, teachers 
and pupils, and the care of the schoolhouse, grounds and property 
of the school corporation, and aid in the enforcement of the same, 
and require the performance of duty by said persons not in con- 
flict with law and said rules and regulations, and such rules and 
regulations shall prohibit the use of tobacco in any form by any 
student of such schools and such board may suspend or expel 
such student for any violation of such rule. [35 G. A., ch. 241, 
§ 2; C. 73, §§ 1730, 1737; R., § 2037.] 

Sec. 2773. Schoolhouse site — division of district — length of 
school. It may fix the site for each schoolhouse, taking into con- 
sideration the geographical position, number and convenience of 
the scholars, provide for the fencing of schoolhouse sites, de- 
termine the number of schools to be taught, divide the corporation 
into such wards or other divisions for school purposes as may be 
proper, determine the particular school which each child shall at- 
tend, and designate the period each school shall be held beyond 
the time required by law, except that no contract shall be entered 
into with any teacher to teach any school in the school corpora- 



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tion, when the average attendance in said school the last preced- 
ing term therein, was less than five pupils, unless a showing is 
made to the county superintendent that the number of children 
( f school age in said school district, has increased so that ten or. 
more will be enrolled in such school and will attend therein, in 
which case, or when natural obstacles to transportation of pupils 
to another district or other conditions make it clearly inadvisable 
that such schools be closed, the county superintendent may con- 
sent to maintaining a school in said district for the ensuing term. 
It shall be the duty of the member of the school board residing 
in said district to make the showing referred to herein or any 
resident of said district may upon his own motion make said show- 
ing. Every school shall be free of tuition to all actual residents 
between the ages of five and twenty-one years, and to resident 
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines as many 
months after becoming twenty-one (21) years of age as they have 
oent in the military and naval service of the United States be- 
fore they became twenty-one (21), and each school regularly 
established shall continue for at least thirty-two weeks of five 
school days each, in each school year commencing the first day of 

July. 

In case a school in any district be closed as herein provided, 
then the board of such school corporation shall provide for the in- 
struction of the pupils in said district in another school as con- 
veniently as may be, and shall provide for the transportation of 
such pupils to such other school when any one or more of such 
pupils resilde more than one and a half miles from the school to 
which they have been assigned, or shall allow to the parent or 
guardian of such'pupil or pupils a reasonable sum for transporting 
such child or children to such other school. 

The school board of the corporation in which the school that 
is closed under the provisions of this act is situated shall pay to 
the secretary of the school corporation in which children attend 
from the closed school the average cost of tuition and other ex- 
penses in the school wherein such children attend. No school 
shall be in session during the time of holding a teachers' institute 
except by written permission of the county superintendent. [38 
G. A., ch. 24 ; 38 G. A., ch. 143 ; 38 G. A., ch. 160 ; 31 G. A., ch. 136, 
§ 8 ; 19 G. A., ch. 172, § 21 ; 17 G. A., ch. 54 ; 15 G. A., ch. 57 ; C. 73, 
§§ 1724, 1727, 1769; R., §§ 2023, 2037.] 

Sec. 2774. Renting room — instruction in other schools — trans- 
portation of children. It may, when necessary, rent a room and 
employ a teacher, where there are ten children for whose accom- 
modation there is no schoolhouse; and when the board is released 
from its obligation to maintain a school, or when children live at 
an unreasonable distance from their own school, the board may 
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districts for the instruction of children thus deprived of school ad- 
vantages, in any school therein, and the cost thereof shall be paid 
from the general fund. And when there will be a saving of ex- 
pense, and children will also thereby secure increased advantages, 
it may arrange with any person outside the board for the trans- 
portation of any child to and from school in the same or in an- 
other corporation, and such expenses shall be paid from the gen- 
eral fund. [21 G. A., ch. 124 ; 16 G. A., ch. 109 ; C. 73, § 1725.] 

Sec. 2775. Instruction as to stimulants, narcotics and poisons. 

It shall require all teachers to give and all scholars to receive in- 
struction in physiology and hygiene, which study in every division 
of the subject shall include the effects upon the human system of 
alcoholic stimulants, narcotics and poisonous substances. The 
instruction in this branch shall of its kind be as direct and specific 
as that given in other essential branches, and each scholar shall 
be required to complete the part of such study in his class or grade 
before being advanced to the next higher, and before being cred- 
ited with having completed the study of the subject. [21 G. A., 
ch. 1.] 

Sec. 2775-as Elementary agriculture — domestic science — man- 
ual training — instruction — teachers' examination. The teaching 
of elementary agriculture, domestic science, and manual training 
shall, after the first day of July, nineteen hundred fifteen, be re- 
quired in the public schools of the state ; and the state superin- 
tendent of public instruction shall prescribe the extent of such in- 
struction in the public schools. And after the date of aforesaid 
elementary agriculture and domestic science or manual training 
shall be included among the subjects required in the examination 
of those applicants for teachers' certificates who are required by 
the provisions of this act to teach agriculture and domestic science. 
Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent the 
board of directors from dispensing with the teaching of said sub- 
jects in rural schools at its discretion. [37 G. A., ch. 319; 36 G. A., 
ch. 261, § 1;35 G. A., ch. 248, § 1.] 

Sec. 2778. Contracts — election of teachers — employment of 
teachers in subdistricts. The board shall carry into efifect any 
instruction from the annual meeting upon matters within the con- 
trol of the voters, and shall elect all teachers and make all con- 
tracts necessary or proper for exercising the powers granted and 
performing the duties required by law. But the board may au- 
thorize any subdirector to employ teachers for the schools in his 
subdistrict. Contracts with teachers must be in writing, and shall 
state the length of time the school is to be taught, the compensa- 
tion per week of five days or month of four weeks, and such other 
matters as may be agreed upon, signed by the president and teach- 
er, and filed with the secretary before the teacher commences to 
teach under such contract. 



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The board of directors of each independent school district of 
any city,, town, village and of each consolidated independent 
school district shall have the power to employ a superintendent 
of schools for a term of not to exceed three years, who shall 
execute the orders and regulations of the board and have such 
powers and duties as they may prescribe, with such duties and 
powers as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the laws of 
the state, provided, however, that no such contract be made until 
a superintendent has served at least one year in the position to 
which it is proposed to elect him for the longer period. [36 G. A., 
ch. 34, § 1; 28 G. A., ch. 107, § 1 ; 22 G. A., ch. 60; C. 73, 
§§ 17-23, 1757; R., §§ 2037, 2055.] 

Sec. 2778-a. Minimum teachers' wage — based on certificate 

grade. All teachers in the public schools of this state, shall be 
paid for their services a minimum wage of not less than the 
amounts hereinafter set forth : 

1. A teacher who has completed a four-year college course 
and received a degree from an approved college and who is the 
holder of a state certificate or a state diploma shall receive a mini- 
mum wage of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month until a 
successful teaching experience of two years in the public schools 
shall have been established. Thereafter, the minimum wage shall 
be one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00) per month. 

2. A teacher who has completed a two-year course in educa- 
tion in a state normal school or other school whose diploma is 
recognized as an equivalent diploma by the state board of educa- 
tional examiners and who shall be the holder of a state certificate, 
or who shall be the holder of a state certificate issued upon 
examination, shall receive a minimum wage of eighty dollars 
($80.00) per month, until a successful teaching experience of two 
years in the public schools shall have been established. There- 
after, the minimum wage shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) 
per month. 

3. A teacher who has completed a normal course in a normal 
training high school and who has had less than one year of suc- 
cessful teaching experence shall receive a minimum wage of sixty- 
five dollars ($65.00) per month. A teacher who has completed a 
normal course in a normal training high school and who shall 
have had one year of successful teaching experience, and a teacher 
holding a first grade uniform county certificate, shall receive a 
minimum wage of seventy-five ($75.00) per month until a suc- 
cessful experience of two years in the public schools shall have 
been established ; thereafter, the minimum wage shall be eighty 
dollars ($80.00) per month. 

4. A teacher who is the holder of a second grade uniform 
county certificate shall receive a minimum wage of sixty dollars 



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($60.00) per month until a successful experience of one year's 
duration in the public schools shall have been established. There- 
after, the minimum wage shall be sixty-five ($65.00) per month. 

5. A teacher holding a third grade uniform county certificate 
shall receive a minimum wage of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. 

Sec. 2. The holder of any certificate in order to become entitled 
to the increase in salary provided by this act because of successful 
teaching experience must file with the county superintendent his 
certificate, also proofs of one or two years of teaching experience 
as the law requires. If in the opinion of the county superinten- 
dent the proofs are satisfactory he shall endorse such findings on 
the back of said certificate and return the same to the holder 
thereof, and any certificate properly endorsed by the county super- 
intendent shall be evidence of qualification for the increase of 
salary provided by this act for such teaching experience. . [38 
G. A., ch. 351; 35 G. A., ch. 249.] 

Sec. 2778-c. Contracts for less than minimum wage prohibited. 

It shall be unlawful for any school board or any school officer to 
contract for or pay a less wage to any teacher in the public schools 
of this state than the minimum amounts herein fixed. But nothing 
herein shall be construed as limiting the right to make a lawful 
contract for a higher wage than herein specified as a minimum 
but no contract entered into by a board of school directors with 
a teacher who is then under contract to teach with another board 
of school directors in the state of Iowa covering the same period 
of time shall be of any validity until such former contract shall 
have been released and cancelled. 

Sec. 2. All teachers' contracts hereafter entered into shall con- 
tain a reference to this act and recite the section in said amend- 
ment after the word "but". [38 G. A., ch. 351 ; 38 G. A., ch. 310; 
35 G. A., ch. 249, § 3.] 

Sec. 2778-d. . Violation — penalty. Any school officer violating 
the provisions of this act shall be fined a sum of not less than 
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, in the 
discretion of the court, and shall be suspended from office. [35 
G. A., ch. 249, § 4.] 

Sec. 2779. Erection or repair of schoolhouse. It shall not erect 
a schoolhouse without first consulting with the county superin- 
tendent as to the most approved plan for such building and se- 
curing his approval of the plan submitted, nor shall any school- 
house be erected or repaired at a cost exceeding three hundred 
dollars save under an express contract reduced to writing, and 
upon proposals therefor, invited by advertisement for four weeks 
in some newspaper published in the county in which the work is 
to be done, and the contract shall be let to the lowest responsible 



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bidder, bonds with sureties for the faithful performance of the 
contract being required, but the board may reject any and all 
bids and advertise for new ones. [C. ^7Z, § 1723; R., § 2037.] 

Sec. 2780. Allowance of claims — settlements — compensation 
of officers — treasurer. It shall audit and allow all just claims 
against the corporation, and no order shall be drawn upon the 
treasury until the claim therefor has been audited and allowed ; 
it shall from time to time examine the accounts of the treasurer 
and make settlements with him; shall present at each regular 
meeting of the electors a full statement of the receipts had and 
expenditures made since the preceding meeting, with such other 
information as may be considered important; and shall fix the 
compensation to be paid the secretary. But no member of the 
board or treasurer shall receive compensation for official services. 
[35 G. A., ch. 247, § 1 ; C. '73, §§ 1732-3, 1738, 1813; R., §§ 2037-8; 
C, '51, §§ 1146, 1149.] 

Sec. 2781. Financial statement. It shall published in each in- 
dependent city or town district, independent school district or 
school township two weeks before the annual school election, by 
one insertion in one or more newspapers, if any are published in 
such district, or by posting up in writing in not less than three 
conspicuous places in the district, a detailed and specific state- 
•ment of the receipts and disbursements of all funds expended for 
school and building purposes for the year preceding such annual 
election. And the said board of directors shall also at the same 
time publish in detail an estimate of the several amounts which, 
in the judgment of such board, are necessary to maintain the 
schools in such district for the next succeeding school year. [37 
G. A., ch. 223; C. '73, §§ 1734-5, 1756; R., §§ 2037, 2054; C. '51, 
§ 1147.] 

Sec. 2782. Visiting schools — regulations — discharge of teacher 
—expulsion of scholar. It shall provide for visiting the schools of 
the district by one or more of its members and aid the teachers 
in the government thereof, and enforcing the rules and regula- 
tions of the board. It may, by a majority vote discharge any 
teacher for incompetency, inattention to duty, partiality, or any 
good cause, after a full and fair investigation made at a meeting 
of the board held for that purpose, at which the teacher shall be 
permitted to.be present and make defense, allowing him a reason- 
able time therefor. It may by a majority vote expel any scholar 
from school for immorality or for a violation of the regulations 
or rules established by the board, or when the presence of the 
scholar is detrimental to the best interests of the school, and it 
may confer upon any teacher, principal, or superintendent the 
power temporarily to dismiss a scholar, notice of such dismissal 
being at once given in writing to the president of the board. 
When a scholar is dismissed by the teacher, principal or superin- 



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tendent, as above provided, he may be re-admitted by such 
teacher, principal or superintendent, but when expelled by the 
board he may be re-admitted only by the board or in the manner 
prescribed by it. [C. 73, §§ 1734-5; R., §§ 2037, 2054; C. '51, 
§ 1147.] 

Sec. 2782-a. Secret societies and fraternities prohibited in 
schools. That from and after the passage of this act it shall be un- 
lawful for any pupil, registered as such, and attending any public 
high school, district, primary, or graded school, which is partially 
or wholly maintained by public funds, to join, become a member 
of, or to solicit any other pupil of any such school to join, or be- 
come a member of any fraternity, or society wholly or par- 
tially formed from the membership of pupils attending any such 
schools or to take part in the organization or formation of any 
such fraternity or society, except such societies or associations 
as are sanctioned by the directors of such schools. [37 G. A., ch. 
158; 53 G. A., ch. 185, § 1.] 

Sec. 2782-b. Enforcement. The directors of all such schools 
shall enforce the provisions of section one of this act, and shall 
have full power and authority to make, adopt, and modify all 
rules and regulations which, in their judgment and discretion, 
may be necessary for the proper governing of such schools and en- 
forcing all the provisions of section one of this act. [33 G. A., ch. 
185, § 2.] 

Sec. 2782-c. Suspension or dismissal. The directors of such 
schools shall have full power and authority, pursuant to the adop- 
tion of such rules and regulations made and adopted by them, to 
suspend, or dismiss any pupil or pupils of such schools therefrom, 
or to prevent them, or any of them, from graduating or participat- 
ing in school honors when, after investigation, in the judgment 
of such directors, or a majority of them, such pupil or pupils are 
guilty of violating any of the provisions of section 1 of this act, or 
who are guilty of violating any rule, rules or regulations adopted 
by such directors for the purpose of governing such schools or 
enforcing section one of this act. [33 G. A., ch. 185, § 3.] 

Sec. 2782-d. Rushing or soliciting to join prohibited — jurisdic- 
tion — penalty. It is hereby made a misdemeanor for any person, 
not a pupil of such schools, to be upon the school grounds, or 
to enter any school building for the purpose of "rushing" or so- 
liciting, while there, any pupil or pupils of such school to join any 
fraternity, society, or association organized outside of said schools. 
All municipal courts and justice courts in this state shall have 
jurisdiction of all ofifenses committed under this section, and all 
persons found guilty of such ofifenses shall be fined not less than 
two dollars nor more than ten dollars, to be paid to the city or 
village treasurer, when such schools are situated inside of the 



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corporate limits of any city or village, and to the county treasurer, 
when situated outside of the corporate limits of any such city or 
village, or upon failure to pay such fine, to be imprisoned for not 
more than ten days. [33 G. A., ch. 185, § 4.] 

Sec. 2783. Use of contingent fund' — free text-books. It may 

provide and pay out of the general fund to insure school property 
such sum as may be necessary ; and may purchase dictionaries, 
library books including books for the purpose of teaching vocal 
music, maps, charts and apparatus for the use of the schools 
thereof to an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars in any 
one year for each school building under its charge ; and may 
furnish school books to indigent children when they are likely to 
be deprived of the proper benefits of school unless so aided ; and 
shall, when directed by a vote of the district, purchase and loan 
books to scholars, and shall provide by levy of general fund there- 
for. [38 G. A., ch. 345; Z7 G. A., ch. 386, § 7; 30 G. A., ch. 115; 
26 G. A., ch. 37; 25 G. A., ch. 34; 21 G. A., ch. 107; 19 G. A., ch. 
149, § 1 ; C. 73, § 1729.] 

Sec. 2784. Water-closets. It shall give special attention to the 
matter of convenient water-closets or privies, and provide on every 
schoolhouse site, not within an independent city or town district, 
two separate buildings located at the farthest point from the main 
entrance to the schoolhouse, and as far from each other as may 
be, and keep them in wholesome condition and good repair. In 
independent city- or town districts, where it is inconvenient or un- 
desirable to erect two separate outhouses, several closets may be 
included under one roof, and if outside the schoolhouse each shall 
be separated from the other by a brick wall, double partition, or 
other solid or continuous barrier, extending from the roof to the 
bottom of the vault below, and the approaches to the outside 
doors for the two sexes shall be separated by a substantial close 
fence not less than seven feet high and thirty feet in length. [25 
G. A., ch. 3.] 

Sec. 2785. Duties of director — contracts — enumeration. The 

board of directors of a school township may authorize the director 
of each subdistrict, subject to its regulations, to make contracts 
for the purchase of fuel, the repairing or furnishing of school- 
houses, and all other matters necessary for the convenience and 
prosperity of the schools in his subdistrict. Such contracts shall 
be binding upon the school township only when approved by the 
president of the board, and must be reported to the board. Each 
director shall, between the first and fifteenth days of June in each 
year, prepare a list of the heads of families in his subdistrict, the 
number and sex of all children of school age, and by the twentieth 
day of said month report this list to the secretary of the school 
township, who shall make full record thereof. The powers speci- 



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fied in this section cannot be exercised by individual directors of 
independent districts. [31 G. A., ch. 136, § 9; C. 73, §§ 1753-5; 
R., §§ 2052-3 ; C. '51, §§ 1124, 1142.] 

Sec. 2786. Industrial exposition. The board of any school cor- 
poration or the director of any subdistrict deeming it expedient 
may, under the direction of the county superintendent, hold and 
maintain an industrial exposition in connection with the schools 
of such district, such exposition to consist in the exhibit of useful 
articles invented, made or raised by the pupils, by sample or other- 
wise, in any of the departments of mechanics, manufacture, art, 
science, agriculture and the kitchen, such exposition to be held in 
the schoolroom, on a school day, as often as once during a term, 
and not oftener than once a month, at which the pupils participat- 
ing therein shall be required to explain, demonstrate or present 
the kind and plan of the articles exhibited, or give its method of 
culture ; and work in these several departments shall be encour- 
aged, and patrons of the school invited to be present at each ex- 
hibition. [15 G. A., ch. 64.] 

Sec. 2787. Shade trees. The board of each school corporation 
shall cause to be set out and properly protected twelve or more 
shade trees on each schoolhouse site where trees are not growing. 
The county superintendent, in visiting the several schools of his 
county, shall call the attention of any board neglecting to comply 
with the requirements of this section to any failure to carry out 
its provisions. [19 G. A., ch. 23.] 

Sec. 2788. Teacher — qualifications. No person shall be em- 
ployed as a teacher in a common school which is to receive its dis- 
tributive share of the school fund without having a certificate of 
qualification given by the county superintendent of the county in 
which the school is situated, or a certificate or diploma issued by 
some other ofificer duly authorized by law and no compensation 
shall be recovered by a teacher for services rendered while with- 
out such certificate or diploma. [C. 73, § 1758; R.. § 2062.] 

Sec. 2789. Keep register — report. Each teacher shall keep a 
daily register which shall correctly exhibit the name or the num- 
ber of the school, the district and county in which it is located, 
the day of the week, month, year, and the name, age and attend- 
ance of each scholar, and the branches taught ; and when scholars 
reside in dififerent districts separate registers shall be kept for 
each district, and a certified copy of the register shall immediately 
at the close of the school be filed by the teacher in the office of the 
secretary of the board. The teacher shall file with the county 
superintendent such reports and in such manner as he may re- 
quire. [C. 73, §§ 1759-60; R., § 2062.] 



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CORPORATIONS— ORGANIZATION— CHANGE OF BOUNDARIES. 

Sec. 2790. New township. When a new civil township is 
formed the same shall constitute a school township, which shall 
go into effect on the first Monday in March following- the com- 
pleted organization of the civil township. The notices of the first 
meeting shall be given by the county superintendent, and at such 
meeting a board of three directors shall be chosen. [C. 73, § 
1713.] 

Sec. 2791. Attaching territory to adjoining corporation. In 

any case where, by reason of natural obstacles, any portion of the 
inhabitants of any school corporation in the opinion of the county 
superintendent cannot with reasonable facility attend school in 
their own corporation, he shall, by written order, in duplicate, at- 
tach the part thus affected to an adjoining school corporation, the 
board of the same consenting thereto, one copy of which order 
shall be at once transmitted to the secretary of each corporation 
affected thereby, who shall record the same and make the proper 
designation on the plat of the corporation. Township or county 
lines shall not be a bar to the operation of this section. [C. '7Z, 
§ 1797.] 

Sec. 2792. Restoration. Where territory has been or may here- 
after be set off to an adjoining school township in the same or 
another county, or attached for school purposes to an independent 
district so situated, it may be restored to the territory to which it 
geographically belongs upon the concurrence of the respective 
boards of directors, and shall be so restored by said boards upon 
the written application of two -thirds of the electors residing upon 
the territory so set off or attached, together with the concurrence 
of the county superintendent and the board of the school corpora- 
tion which is to receive back the territory. [19 G. A., ch. 160; 
18 G. A., ch. Ill; C. 73, § 1798.] 

Sec. 2793. Boundary lines changed. The boundary lines of 
contiguous school corporations may be changed by the concur- 
rent action of the respective boards of directors at their regular 
meetings in July, or at special meetings thereafter called for that 
purpose. The corporation from which territory is detached shall 
after the change contain not less than four government sections 
of land, and its boundary lines must conform to the lines of 
congressional divisions of land. In the same manner, the bound- 
ary lines of contiguous school corporations may be so changed 
that one corporation shall be included in and consolidated with 
the other as a single corporation. When boundary lines are 
changed by concurrent action, school districts affected thereby 
shall not be required to elect new boards of directors, and the 
boards then in office may make final settlement of all assets and 
liabilities as provided in section two thousand eight hundred two 
(2802), supplement to the code, 1913, and in case of a consolida- 



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tion of districts under this section the officers and members of the 
board of directors of the independent district having the larger 
number of inhabitants, shall continue to be the officers and di- 
rectors of the independent district, as consolidated for the period 
for which such officers and directors were elected. [38 G. A., ch. 
113; 34 G. A., ch. 142; 31 G. A., ch. 136, § 10; 22 G. A., ch. 62, 

§ 1-] 

In effect by publication April 3, 1919. 

Sec. 2793-a. Corporation limits changed. When the boundary- 
line between a school township and an independent city or town 
district is not also the line between civil township, such boundary 
may be changed at any time by the concurrence of the boards of 
directors ; but in no case shall a forty-acre tract of land, by the 
government survey, be divided ; and such subdivisions shall be 
excluded or included as entire forties. The boundaries of the 
school township or the independent district may in the same man- 
ner be extended to the line between civil townships, even though 
by such change one of the districts shall be included within and 
consolidated with the other as a single district. When the cor- 
porate limits of any city or town are extended outside the existing 
independent district or districts, the boundaries of said inde- 
pendent district or districts shall be also correspondingly ex- 
tended. But in no case shall the boundaries of an independent 
district be affected bv the reduction of the corporate limits of a 
city or town. [27 G. A., ch. 89.] 

Sec. 2794. Formation of independent district. Upon the writ- 
ten petition of any ten voters of a city, town or village of over 
one hundred residents, to the board of the school corporation in 
which the portion of the town plat having the largest number of 
voters is situated, such board shall establish the boundaries of 
a proposed independent district, including therein all of the city, 
town or village, and also such contiguous territory as is author- 
ized by a written petition of a majority of the resident electors of 
the contiguous territory proposed to be included in said district, 
in not smaller subdivisions than entire forties of land, in the same 
or any adjoining school, corporations, as may best subserve the 
convenience of the people for school purposes, and shall give the 
same notices of a meeting as required in other cases, at which 
meeting all voters upon the territory included within the con- 
templated independent district shall be allowed to vote by ballot 
for or against such separate organization. When it is proposed 
to include territory outside the town, city or village, the voters re- 
siding upon such outside territory shall be entitled to vote sep- 
arately upon the proposition for the formation of such new dis- 
trict, by presenting a petition of at least twenty-five per cent, of 
the voters residing upon such outside territory, and if a majority 
of the votes so cast is against including such outside territory, 



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then the proposed independent district shall not be formed, pro- 
vided that a subdistrict containing a village with a population of 
seventy-five or more, may, under the provisions of this act or- 
ganize into an independent school district. [36 G. A., ch. 89, 
U ; 29 G. A., ch. 126, § 1 ; 19 G. A., ch. 1 18, § 1 ; 18 G. A., ch. 139 ; 
C. 73, §§ 1800-1 ; R., §§ 2097, 2105.] 



CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

Section 1. Organization — dissolution. That section twenty- 
seven hundred ninety-four-a (2794-a) of the supplemental sup- 
plement to the code, 1915 as amended by chapter 432 of the acts 
of the thirty-seventh general assembly, be amended by striking 
therefrom the first hundred lines of subdivision "a" thereof and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following: 

(a) When a petition describing the boundaries of contiguous 
territory containing not less than sixteen sections, within one or 
more counties, asking for the establishment of a consolidated 
independent school district and signed by one-third of the quali- 
fied voters residing therein, is filed with the county superin- 
tendent of the county in which the largest number of qualified 
voters in the proposed district reside, he shall within ten days 
give public notice of the place and date when all objections shall 
be filed. Such petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit 
showing the number of qualified voters in the proposed consoli- 
dated district and in case such district is in two or more coun- 
ties such affidavit shall show separately, as to each county, the 
number of qualified voters in the part of each county included in 
the proposed district. Such affidavit shall be made by some 
qualified voter residing in the proposed district, and shall be 
taken as true, unless objections are filed to it prior to the final 
decision on said petition. All notices under this act shall be by 
one publication in a newspaper published within the proposed 
district or if there be none, then in a newspaper having general 
circulation within the proposed consolidated district, which pub- 
lication shall be m.ade not less than five days nor more than fif- 
teen days prior to the hearing or election to which they refer. 
Objections may be made by any person residing upon or owning 
land within such proposed boundaries or who would be in- 
juriously affected by the formation of the proposed district and 
shall be on file not later than twelve o'clock noon of the day fixed 
for receiving objections. Within five days after such filings the 
county superintendent shall review all papers filed in his office 
and after careful review and investigation of their merits shall 
overrule or sustain the objections filed and fix and determine the 
boundary lines of the proposed consolidated district. In deter- 
mining these boundaries he shall so locate the boundary lines as 
will in his judgment form the best possible consolidated district, 
having due regard also to the welfare of adjoining districts. He 



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shall also notify at once all objectors by registered letter of his 
decision. 

Any person having filed objections and being aggrieved by 
the ruling of the county superintendent may appeal from his de- 
cision to the county board of education within ten days after the 
decision is rendered, by serving written notice 'on the said county 
superintendent. Within five days after said notice has been re- 
ceived, the county superintendent shall file with the county board 
of education all of the original papers together with his decision 
and fix the time and place where such appeal will be heard and 
shall give notice to appellants by registered letter as heretofore 
provided. The time fixed for such hearing shall be not less than 
ten nor more than fifteen days from the date his decision is 
rendered. The county board of education shall determine such 
appeal within five days after the submission thereof which de- 
cision shall be final as to said boundaries. 

If no objections be filed or if the objections be not sustained, 
it shall be the^ duty of the county superintendent with whom said 
petition has been filed to call an election in the proposed consol- 
idated district, legal notice of which shall be given as hereinbe- 
fore provided. At the election all qualified voters residing in 
the proposed consolidated district shall be entitled to vote by 
ballot for or against the establishment thereof. 

When it is proposed to include in such district a school cor- 
poration containing a city, town or village with a population of 
•two hundred or more inhabitants, the voters residing upon 
the territory outside the limits of the said school corpora- 
tion shall vote separately upon the proposition to create such 
new district. The judges of said election shall provide separate 
ballot boxes in which shall be deposited the votes cast by the 
qualified voters from their respective territory, and if a majority 
of the votes cast by the qualified voters residing either within 
or without the limits of the aforesaid school corporation is against 
the proposition to form a consolidated independent corporation, 
then the proposed corporation shall not be formed. If a major- 
ity of the votes so cast in each territory shall be in favor of such 
independent organization, the organization of the proposed con- 
solidated independent school corporation shall be completed by 
the election of a board of directors for said school corporation. 
Said election shall be called by the same county superintendent 
and by giving the same notice as provided for the calling of the 
election to -establish said consolidated independent district. At 
such election two directors shall be chosen to serve until the next 
annual meeting, two until the second, and one until the third 
annual meeting thereafter. It is further provided that when a 
consolidated independent district is so organized it shall not be 
reduced to less than sixteen sections unless dissolved as provided 
bv law. 

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No remaining portion of any school corporation from which 
territory is taken to form such a consoHdated independent cor- 
poration shall, after the change, contain less than four govern- 
ment sections, which territory shall be contiguous and so situ- 
ated as to form a suitable corporation. In the formation of such 
consolidated school corporation the boundary lines shall conform 
to those of school corporations or subdistricts already estab- 
lished, provided, however, that the county board of education on 
hearing, may fix other boundaries than herein prescribed, when 
because of meandering streams, irregular boundaries of existing 
subdistricts or school corporations or the location of highways, 
the welfare of the consolidated district and the adjoining districts 
may be better served. In case the boundary of such subdistricts 
be a public highway then the said consolidated district may in- 
clude such tracts of one hundred sixty acres or less as are con- 
tiguous to the said highway. And where after the formation of 
such consolidated school corporation, there is left in any school 
townhsip one or more pieces of territory containing four or more 
government sections, each of such pieces of territory shall thereon 
become a rural independent school corporation, unless two or 
more subdistricts remain in a contiguous body, in which event 
such remaining portion of territory shall constitute a school 
township, and it shall be the duty of the officers of the former 
scho'ol township to call an election in each of such remaining 
pieces of territory for the purpose of election school officers in 
the manner provided by law for the election of officers in rural 
independent school and school township corporations. The judges 
of the elections herein provided for shall be appointed by the 
county superintendent with whom the petition was filed. Such 
judges shall be qualified voters of the territory or district in 
which they are to serve. If any judge fails to appear at the 
proper time his place shall be filled by the judge or judges pres- 
ent. 

This act shall not affect, or be construed to affect action now 
pending in the formation of any consolidated school district. 
[38 G A., ch. 148; 37 G. A., ch. 432; 2>6 G. A., ch. 46; 36 G. A., 
ch. 342 ; 34 G. A., ch. 143, § 1 ; 31 G. A., ch. 141.] 

In effect by publication April 8, 1919. 

(b) Organization of hoard — taxes previously certified — levy for 
general ftmd. The organization of the school board in consolidated 
independent school corporations shall be effected on or before 
the first day of July following their election, and when completed, 
all taxes previously certified shall be void so far as the property 
within the limits of the consolidated independent school corpora- 
tion is concerned, and the board of said consolidated independent 
school corporation shall at a regular meeting or a special meeting 
called for the purpose, at any time prior to the third Monday in 
August of each year, levy for the general fund of said school the 



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amount of all necessary taxes for all school purposes, which shall 
not exceed sixty-five dollars for each person of school age, except 
that where an approved high school course is maintained in such 
school the levy may be eighty dollars for each person of school 
age the amount so levied to be certified by them to the county 
board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of September 
in each year, and the board of supervisors shall levy said tax at 
the same time, and in the same manner that other school taxes 
are required to be levied. [38 G. A., H. F. 103; 31 G. A., ch. 
141.] 

(c) Central school — transportation. It shall be the duty of the 
school board of any consolidated independent school corporation 
and school township maintaining a central school to provide 
suitable transportation to and from school, for every child of 
school age living within said district, and outside the limits of 
any city, town or village but the board shall not be required to 
cause the vehicle of transportation to leave the public highway 
to receive or discharge occupants thereof. The board shall from 
time to time, by resolution regularly adopted, number and des- 
ignate the route to be traveled by each conveyance in transport- 
ing children to and from school. The school board may require 
that children living an unreasonable distance from school shall 
be transported by the parent, or guardian, a distance of not to 
exceed two miles, to connect with any vehicle of transportation 
to and from school ; or may, in the discretion of the board, con- 
tract with an adjoining school corporation for the instruction of 
any child living an unreasonable distance from school, and they 
shall allow a reasonable amount of compensation for the trans- 
portation of children to and from the point where they are taken 
over, or discharged from the vehicle used to convey them to and 
from school, or for transporting to an adjoining district. In de- 
termining what an unreasonable distance would be, considera- 
tion shall be given to the number and age of the children, the 
condition of the roads, and the number of miles to be traveled in 
going to and from school. The board shall have the right on 
account of inclemency of the weather to suspend the transporta- 
tion of any route upon any day or days when in the judgment of 
the said board it would be a hardship on the children, or when 
the roads to be traveled are unfit or impassable. 

(d) Contracts for transportation — rules and regulations. The 
school board of any consolidated independent school corporation 
shall contract with as many suitable persons as they deem nec- 
essary for the transportation of children of school age to and 
from school, such contract to be in writing and shall state the 
number of the route, the length of time contracted for, the com- 
pensation to be allowed per week of five school days, or per 
month of four school weeks, and may provide that two weeks' 
salary shall be retained by the board pending full compliance 
therewith by the party contracted with, and shall always provide 



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that any party or parties to said contract and every person in 
charge of vehicles conveying children to and from school, s'hall be 
at all times subject to any rules or regulations said board shall 
adopt for the protection of the children, or to govern the conduct 
of the person in charge of said conveyance. 

(e) School building — tax levy — location. It shall be the duty 
of the school board of any consolidated independent district to 
provide a suitable school building within such district, and shall 
at any regular meeting- or at a special meeting called for that pur- 
pose submit the question of levying a tax for the building of any 
school building suitable for the needs of the district, or for the 
building of a superintendent's and teachers' house, or for the re- 
pairing of any school building where the cost of such repairs 
exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars to the qualified voters 
of said district, and all moneys received from such source to be 
placed in the schoolhouse fund of said corporation and to be 
used for such purposes only. In locating said building they shall 
take into consideration the geographical position, number and 
convenience of the scholars, and may submit the question of loca- 
tion to the voters of the district at any regular meeting or special 
meeting called for that purpose ; providing that whenever a city, 
town or village containing a school population of twenty-five or 
more, is included within any consolidated independent district, 
then said building shall be located within the limits of said city, 
town or village, or upon lands contiguous to such limits, on such 
a site as the school board may determine. [37 G. A., ch. 432; 34 
G. A., ch. 143; 31 G. A., ch. 141.] 

(f) Dissolution — petition — election — boards of directors — divi- 
sion of assets and liabilities. Whenever a petition signed by one- 
third of the electors in a consolidated independent school corpo- 
ration asking that said district be dissolved and describing the 
boundaries of the district or districts proposed to be organized 
out of the territory then included in such consolidated indepen- 
dent school corporation and having the approval of the county 
superintendent, if one county, and the superintendent of each 
if more than one county, and by the state superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction if the county superintendents do not agree, is filed 
with the board of said consolidated independent district, it shall 
be the duty of said board within ten days to call an election for 
which they shall give the same notices as are required in section 
twenty-seven hundred forty-six of the code, and twenty-seven 
hundred fifty of the supplement to the code, 1907, at which elec- 
tion all voters residing within the district shall be allowed to 
vote by ballot for or against such dissolution. If a majority of all 
votes cast at said election be in favor of dissolving the consoli- 
dated district, same shall be dissolved and the organization of a 
new district or districts be forthwith completed by the election 
of a board of directors as provided by statute ; provided, however, 
that such dissolution shall become eiifective only when the reor- 



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ganization of the territory included in the original consolidated 
district is completed. The assets and liabilities of any such 
school corporation thus dissolved shall be equitably divided as 
provided in section twenty-eight hundred and two of the supple- 
ment to the code, 1907. 

(g) Violation of transportation rules and regulations — penalty. 
Any person driving, managing, or in charge of any vehicle used 
in transporting children to and from school in any consolidated 
independent school corporation who shall be found guilty of vio- 
lating any of the rules and regulations adopted by the board of 
said school for the guidance of any person in charge of such 
conveyance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first 
offense shall be fined not less than five dollars or more than ten 
dollars and for a subsequent offense shall be fined not less than 
twenty-five dollars or more than fifty dollars and shall be dis- 
missed from the service. [36 G. A., ch. 342, § 1 ; 36 G. A., ch. 
46, §1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 143, § 1 ; 31 G. A„ ch. 141.] 

Sec. 2794-b. State aid to consolidated schools — equipment and 
maintenance — two-room building — ^agriculture and home eco- 
nomics. That all consolidated schools organized in accordance 
with the provisions of the code supplement section twenty-seven 
hundred ninety-four-a as amended by chapter one hundred forty- 
three of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly which are 
now or hereafter established with suitable grounds and a two- 
room school building and the necessary departments and equip- 
ment for teaching agriculture and home economics, or other in- 
dustrial and vocational subjects, and employing teachers holding 
a certificate showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, 
and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regu- 
lar course in such schools, subject to the approval of the super- 
intendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from 
the state treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the 
sum of two hundred fifty dollars towards the equipment required, 
and the further sum of two hundred dollars annually. [35 G. A., 
ch. 250, § 1.] 

Sec. 2794-c. Same — three-room building — manual training. 

That all such schools established with a three-room school build- 
ing and suitable grounds and the necessary departments and 
equipment for teaching agriculture, home economics and manual 
training, or other industrial and vocational subjects, and employ- 
ing- teachers holding a certificate showing their qualification to 
teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a 
part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval 
of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and 
paid from the state treasury from moneys not otherwise appro- 
priated, the sum of three hundred fifty dollars towards the equip- 
ment required and the further sum of five hundred dollars annu- 
ally. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 2.] 



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Sec. 2794-d. Same — four-room building. That all such schools 
established with four rooms or more and suitable grounds and the 
necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture, 
home economics and manual training, or other industrial and vo- 
cational subjects, and employing teachers holding a certificate 
showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which 
said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such 
schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public 
instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury 
from moneys not otherwise appropriated the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars towards the equipment required, and the further 
sum of seven hundred fifty dollars annually. [35 G. A., ch. 250, 

Sec. 2794-e. Report by secretary — requisition — warrant. The 

secretary of each school corporation shall, at the close of each 
school year, report to the superintendent of public instruction as 
said officer may require ; upon receipt of a satisfactory report, the 
superintendent of public instruction shall issue a requisition upon 
the auditor of state for the amount due such school corporation 
for said year; whereupon the auditor of state shall draw a war- 
rant on the state treasury payable to such school corporation for 
the amount of said requisition', and forward the same to the sec- 
retary of such school corporation. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 4.] 

Sec. 2794-f. No additional aid for normal course in high school. 

No consolidated school having a high school department shall 
receive additional aid for maintaining the normal training course 
in high schools as provided in chapter one hundred thirty-one, 
acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly. [35 G. A., ch. 250, 
§ 5.] 

Sec. 2794-g. Annual appropriation. That the law as it appears 
in section twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-g, supplement to 
the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the fol- 
lowing enacted in lieu thereof: 

"For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act 
there is hereby appropriated annually out of any money in the 
state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hun- 
dred fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary. In the event the foregoing appropriation shall be insuffi- 
cient in any year to pay in full the state aid to which the schools' 
described in sections twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-b 
(2794-b), twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-c (2794-c), and 
twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-d (2794-d), supplement to the 
code, 1913, the said appropriation shall be distributed among the 
several schools pro rata in proportion to the amount they would 
have received had said appropriation been sufficient to pay in full 
the amounts provided for in said section. [38 G. A., ch. 291 ; 36 
G. A., S. F. 282, § 1 ; 35 G. A., ch. 250, § 6.] 

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Sec. 2795. Organization. If the proposition to establish an 
independent district carries, then the same board shall give the 
usual notice for a meeting to choose a board of directors. Two 
directors shall be chosen to serve until the next annual meeting, 
two until the second, and one until the third annual meeting 
thereafter. The board shall organize by the election of officers 
in the usual manner. [15 G. A., ch. 27; C. 73, § 1802; R., §§ 
2099, 2100, 2106.] 

Sec. 2796. Taxes certified and levied. The organization of 
such independent district shall be effected on or before the first 
day of August of the year in which it is attempted, and, when 
completed, all taxes certified for the school township or town- 
ships of which the independent district formed a part shall be 
void so far as the property within the limits of the independent 
district is concerned, and the board of such independent district 
shall fix the amount of all necessary taxes for school purposes, 
including schoolhouse taxes, at a meeting called for such purpose 
at any time before the third Monday of August, which shall be 
certified to the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday 
of September, and it shall levy said tax at the same time and in 
the same manner that other school taxes are required to be levied. 
[C. 73, § 1804.] 

Sec. 2797. Rural independent districts. At any time before 
the first day of August, upon the written request of one-third of 
the legal voters in each subdistrict of any school township, the 
board shall call a meeting of the voters of the subdistrict, giving 
at least thirty days' notice thereof by posting three notices in 
each subdistrict in each school township, at which meeting the 
voters shall vote by ballot for or against rural independent dis- 
trict organization. If a majority of the votes cast in each sub- 
district shall be favorable to such independent organization, then 
each subdistrict shall become a rural independent district, and 
the board of the school township shall then call a meeting in each 
rural independent district for the choice of three directors, to 
serve one, two and three years, respectively, and the organization 
of the said rural independent district shall be completed. [22 G. 
A., ch. 61.] 

Sec. 2798. Subdivision of independent districts. Independent 
districts may subdivide for the purpose of forming two or more 
independent districts or have territory detached to be annexed 
with other territory in the formation of an independent district 
or districts, the board of directors of the original independent 
districts to establish the boundaries of the districts thus formed, 
such new districts to contain not less than four government sec- 
tions of land each ; but in case a stream or other obstacle shall 
debar a number of children of school privileges, an independent 
district may be thus organized containing less territory ; or, if 



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such new district shall include within its territory a town or vil- 
lage with not less than one hundred inhabitants, it may in like 
manner be made up of less territory; but in neither case shall the 
new district contain less than two government sections of land, 
nor be organized except on a majority vote of the electors of 
each proposed district, and the proceedings for such subdivision 
shall in all respects be like those provided in the section relating 
to organizing cities and towns into independent districts so far 
as applicable. [18 G. A., ch. 131 ; 17 G. A., ch. 133, §§ 1-4.] 

Sec. 2799. Uniting independent districts. Independent dis- 
tricts located contiguous to each other may unite and form one 
and the same independent district in the manner following : At 
the written request of any ten legal voters residing in each of 
said independent districts, or, if there be not ten, then a majority 
of such voters, their respective boards of directors shall require 
their secretaries to give at least ten days' notice of the time and 
place for a meeting of the electors residing in each of such dis- 
tricts, by posting written notices in at least five public places in 
each of said districts, at which meeting the electors shall vote by 
ballot for or against a consolidated organization of said indepen- 
dent districts, and, if a majority of the votes cast at the election 
in each district shall be in favor of uniting said districts, the sec- 
retaries shall give similar notice of a meeting of the electors as 
provided for by law for the organization of independent districts 
including cities and towns. [22 G. A., ch. 63, § 1 ; C. '7Z, § 1811.] 

Sec. 2800. Rural independent districts united into school town- 
ship. A township which has been divided into rural indepen- 
dent districts may be erected into a school township by a vote of 
the electors, to be taken upon the written request of one-third 
of the legal voters residing in such civil township. Upon pre- 
sentation of such written request to the township trustees, they 
shall call a meeting of the electors at the usual place or places 
of holding the township election, upon giving at least ten days' 
notice thereof by posting three written notices in each rural in- 
dependent district in the township, and by publication in a news- 
paper, if one be published in such township, at which meeting the 
said electors shall vote by ballot for or against a school township 
organization. If a majority of the votes cast at such election be 
in favor of such organization, each rural independent district 
shall become a subdistrict of the school township, and shall or- 
ganize as such on the first Monday in March following, by the 
election of a director, notice of which shall be given as in other 
cases by the secretary of each of the rural independent districts, 
and the directors so elected shall organize as a board of directors 
of the school township on the first day of July following, unless 
that date falls on Sunday, in which case on the day following. 
[31 G. A., ch. 136, § 11 ; 16 G. A., ch. 155 ; C. '73, §§ 1815-20.] 

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board of any school township may by a vote of a majority of all 
the members thereof, at the regular meeting in July, or at any 
special meeting called thereafter for that purpose, divide the 
school township into subdistricts such as justice, equity and the 
interest of the people require, and may make such alterations of the 
boundaries of subdistricts heretofore formed as may be deemed 
necessary, and shall designated such subdistricts and all sub- 
sequent alterations in a distinct and legible manner upon a plat 
of the school township provided for that purpose, and shall cause 
a written description of the same to be recorded in the records 
of the school township, a copy of which shall be delivered by the 
secretary to the county treasurer and also to the county auditor, 
who shall record the same in his office. The boundaries of sub- 
districts shall conform to the lines of the congressional divisions 
of land, and the formation or alteration of subdistricts as con- 
templated in this section shall not take effect until the first Mon- 
day in March thereafter, at which time a director shall be elected 
for any subdistrict newly formed. [31 G. A., ch. 136, § 12; 21 
G. A., ch. 124; 16 G. A..'ch. 109; C. 73. §§ 1725. 1738, 1796; R., 
§ 2038.] 

Sec. 2802. Changes of boundaries — division of assets and liabili- 
ties. When any changes are made in the boundaries of any school 
corporation the new corporation shall elect a board of directors 
in accordance with the new boundaries, and such new boards shall 
organize as provided in section twenty-seven hundred fifty-seven 
(2757) of this chapter. The boards of directors in office at the 
time the changes are made in the boundaries of the school corpora- 
tion, shall continue to act until the boards of directors represent- 
ing the newly formed districts have been duly organized, where- 
upon the new board shall make an equitable division of all assets 
and liabilities of the corporations affected ; and. if they cannot 
agree, the matters upon which they differ shall be decided by 
disinterested arbitrators, one selected by each board having an in- 
terest therein, and if the number thus selected is even, then one 
shall be added by the county superintendent, and the decision of 
the arbitrators shall be made in writing, either party having the 
right to appeal therefrom to the district court. [31 G. A., ch. 136, 
§ 13; C. 73, § 1715.] 

Sec. 2803. Attending school in another corporation. A child 
residing in one corporation may attend school in another in the 
same or adjoining county if the two boards so agree. In case no 
such agreement is made, the county superintendent of the county 
in which the child resides and the board of such adjoining cor- 
poration may consent to such attendance, if the child resides 
nearer a schoolhouse in the adjoining corporation and one and 
one-half miles or more from any public school in the corporation 
of his residence. But before granting such consent the county 



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superintendent shall give notice to the board where the child 
resides and hear objections, if any. In case such consent is given, 
the board of the district of the child's residence shall be notified 
thereof in writing, and shall pay to the .other district the average 
tuition per week for the school or room thereof in which such 
child attends. If payment is refused or neglected, the board of 
the creditor corporation shall file an account thereof certified by 
its president with the auditor of the county of the child's residence, 
who shall, at the time of the making of the next semi-annual ap- 
portionment, deduct the amount from the sum apportioned to 
the debtor district, and cause it to be paid to the corporation 
entitled thereto. [37 G. A., ch. 386, § 8 ; 17 G. A., ch. 41 ; 16 G. A., 
ch. 64; C. '7Z, § 1793; R., § 2024; C. '51, § 1143.] 

Sec. 2804. School agei — nonresidents. Persons between five 
and twenty-one years of age shall be of school age. Nonresident 
children and those sojourning temporarily in any school corpora- 
tion may attend school therein upon such terms as the board may 
determine. The parent or guardian whose child or ward attends 
school in any independent district of which he is not a resident 
shall be allowed to deduct the amount of school tax paid by him 
in said district from the amount of the tuition required to be paid. 
[C. '73, § 1795.] 

Sec. 2804-a. Display of United States flag — duty of board — 
flagstaff. That it shall be the duty of the board of directors of 
each school corporation of this state to provide a suitable flagstaff 
on each public school building maintained under the authority of 
such board of directors and to provide each of such school build- 
ings with a suitable flag, and such flag shall be raised over such 
building on all days when weather suitable therefor shall prevail. 
[35 G. A., ch. 244, § 1.] 

Sec. 2804-b. Flag raising services. That at the commencement 
of each school day the teacher, superintendent, principal or who- 
ever has the general supervision of the school administration 
within any such building, may arrange for the raising of such flag, 
as herein provided for, over the said building, with appropriate 
services, when weather conditions will permit, at the beginning 
of each school day. [35 G. A., ch. 244, § 2.] 

Sec. 2804-c.. Flag upon all public buildings. That it shall be 
the duty of the custodians of all public buildings of the state of 
Iowa to raise over such building the flag of the United States of 
America, upon each secular day when weather conditions are 
favorable, and it shall be the duty of any board of public officers 
charged with the duty of providing for the supplies of any such 
public building, to provide in connection with other supplies for 
any such building of the state of Iowa, a suitable flag for the pur- 
poses herein provided. [35 G. A., ch. 244, § 3.] 



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Sec. 2805. Bible not excluded. The bible shall not be excluded 
from any public school or institution in the state, nor shall any 
child be required to read it contrary to the wishes of his parent 
or guardian. [C. 73. § 1764; R., § 2119.] 

Sec. 2806. School taxes — transportation fund — contract for use 
of library. The board of each school corporation shall at its reg- 
ular meeting in July, or at a special meeting called for that pur- 
pose between the time designated for such regular meeting and 
the third Monday in August, estimate the amount required for 
the general fund, not exceeding sixty dollars for each pupil of 
school age, but each school corporation may estimate not to ex- 
ceed six hundred and fifty dollars for each school thereof, and 
such additional sum as may be necessary not exceeding five dol- 
lars for each person of school age for transporting children to and 
from schools ; also such additional sum as may be authorized in 
section twenty-eight hundred twenty-five of the code. No tax 
shall be estimated by the board after the third Monday in August, 
in each year. School corporations containing territory in adjoin- 
ing counties may vote and estimate all taxes for school purposes 
in mills. The board shall apportion any tax voted by the annual 
meeting for schoolhouse fund among the several subdistricts in 
such a manner as justice and equity may require, taking as the 
basis of such apportionment the respective amounts previously 
levied upon said subdistricts for the use of such fund. The board 
of directors of any school corporation in which there is no free 
public library shall have power to contract with any free public 
library for the free use of such library by the residents of such 
school district as provided in section one of this act and to pay 
such library the amount agreed therefor, and to certify annually 
a tax not exceeding one mill on the dollar of the taxable property 
of such district, to be used exclusively therefor ; and during the 
existence of such contract a tax sufficient to pay such library the 
consideration agreed upon, not exceeding one mill on the dollar, 
shall be certified annually by such board. Each school corpora- 
tion making such contract shall, during the existence of such con- 
tract, be relieved from the requirements of section twenty-eight 
hundrd twenty-three-n of the supplement to the code. 1907. This 
section shall not be construed to apply in townships where a 
contract is in existence under the provisions of section two of 
this act. [38 G. A., ch. 77 \ 37 G. A., ch. 386, § 9: 37 G. A., ch. 
32; 35 G. A., ch. 251, § § 1, 2; 35 G. A., ch. 70, § 5 ; 33 G. A., ch. 
182, § 1 ; 31 G. A., ch. 136. § 14; 28 G. A., ch. 108, § 1 ; 15 G. A., 
ch. 67, § 1 ; C. 73, § § 1738, 1777-8; R., § § 2033-4, 2037-44, 2083.] 

Sec. 2806-a. All funds on hand in the school house bond fund 
at the time of the taking efifect of this act shall be transferred to 
the schoolhouse fund and all funds on hand in the teachers' fund 
and contingent fund on said date shall be transferred to the gen- 
eral fund of such corporation. [37 G. A., ch. 386. § 11.] 



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Sec. 2807. Levy by board of supervisors. The board of su- 
pervisors shall at the time of levying- taxes for county purposes 
levy the taxes necessary to raise the various funds authorized 
by law and certified to it under this chapter, but if the amount 
certified for any such fund is in excess of the amount authorized 
by law it shall levy only so much thereof as is authorized by 
law. If a schoolhouse tax is voted at a special meeting and cer- 
tified to said board after the regular levy is made, it shall at its 
next regular meeting levy such tax and cause the same to be 
forthwith entered upon the tax list to be collected as other 
school taxes. It shall also levy a tax for the support of the 
schools within the county of not less than one nor more than 
three mills on the dollar on the assessed value of all the taxable 
property within the county. [C. 73, §§ 1779-80; R., §§ 2057, 
2059.] 

Sec. 2808. Apportionment. The county auditor shall on the 
first Monday in April and the first Monday in October of each 
year, apportion to the school tax, together with the interest of 
the permanent school fund and rents on unsold lands to which 
the county is entitled as shown in the notice from the auditor of 
state, and all other money in the hands of the county treasurer 
belonging in common to the schools of the county and not in- 
cluded in any previous apportionment among the several cor- 
porations therein, in proportion to the number of persons of school 
age, as shown by the report of the county superintendent filed 
with him for the year immediately preceding. He shall im- 
mediately notify the county treasurer of such apportionment and 
of the amount due thereby to each corporation. The county 
treasurer shall thereupon give notice to the president of each 
corporation, and shall pay out such apportionment moneys in 
the same manner that he is authorized to pay other school moneys 
to the treasurers of the several school districts. [32 G. A., ch. 
151, § 3; 27 G. A., ch. 94; C. 73, §§ 1781-2, 1841; R., §§ 1966, 
2060-1.] 

Sec. 2809. Auditor to report. The county auditor, shall on 
the first Monday in January of each year, forward to the super- 
intendent of public instruction a certificate of the election or 
appointment and qualification of the county superintendent, and 
shall also on the first day of January of each year make out and 
transmit to the auditor of state, in accordance with such forms 
as said auditor may prescribe, a report of the amount of perma- 
nent school fund held by the county and also the amount of in- 
terest due prior to January first, still remaining unpaid, and shall 
file said report with the auditor of state on or before the first 
day of February. [32 G. A., ch. 151, § 2; C. 73, § 1783.] 

Sec. 2810. Taxes paid over. Before the third Monday of 
January, April, July and October in each year, the county treas- 
urer shall give notice to the president of the board of each school 



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corporation in the county of the amount collected for each fund 
to the first day of such month, and the president of each board 
shall draw his draft therefor, countersigned by the secretary, 
upon the county treasurer, who shall pay such taxes to the treas- 
urers of the several school boards only on such draft. He shall 
also keep the amount of tax levied for schoolhouse purposes 
separate in each subdistrict where such levy has been made di- 
rectly upon the property of the subdistrict, and shall pay over 
the same quarterly to the treasurer of the school township for 
the benefit of such subdistrict. [C. 73, §§ 1784-5.] 

Sec. 2811. Judgment tax. When a judgment shall be ob- 
tained against a school corporation, its board shall order the 
payment thereof out of the proper fund by an order on the treas- 
urer, not in excess, however, of the funds available for that pur- 
pose. If the proper fund is not sufficient, then, unless its board 
has provided by the issuance of bonds for raising the amount 
necessary to pay such judgment, the voters thereof shall at their 
annual meeting vote a sufficient tax for the purpose. In case of 
failure or neglect to vote such a tax, the school board shall cer- 
tify the amount required to the board of supervisors, who shall 
levy a tax on the property of the corporation for the same. [18 
G. A., ch. 132, ^6;C. 73, § 1787 ; R., § 2095.] 

BONDS— INDEBTEDNESS. 

Sec. 2812-c. School funding bonds. That the law appearing 
as section 2812-c of the supplement to the code, 1913, be and the 
same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 

"For the purpose of providing for the payment of any indebt- 
edness of any school corporation represented by judgments or 
bonds, the board of directors of such school corporation at any 
time or times may provide by resolution for the issuance of 
bonds of such school corporation to be known as funding or re- 
funding bonds. The proceeds derived from the negotiation of 
such funding or refunding bonds shall be applied in payment of 
such indebtedness ; or said funding bonds or refunding bonds 
may be issued in exchange for the evidence of such indebtedness, 
par for par." 

Sec. 2. All bonds which have been heretofore issued under 
chapter one hundred fifty-two (152) of the laws of the thirty- 
second (32d) general assembly of Iowa and which are subject 
to the objection that they were issued to refund bonds which 
has been issued subsequent to the adoption of said chapter one 
hundred fifty-two (152), are hereby legalized in respect to said 
objection, the same in efifect as if the bonds refunded had been 
issued prior to the adoption of said chapter one hundred fifty- 
two (152). 

Sec. 3. Nothing in this act shall afifect any pending litigation. 
[27 G. A., ch. 262; 32 G. A., ch. 152, § 2.] 



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Sec. 2812-d. School building bonds. For the purpose of bor- 
rowing money necessary to erect, complete, equip, furnish or 
improve a schoolhouse, or to purchase sites therefor, the board 
of directors of any school corporation, when they have been 
heretofore, or when they may hereafter be authorized by the 
voters at the annual meeting or at a special meeting called for 
that purpose, may issue the negotiable interest bearing bonds of 
said school corporation; said bonds to be known as school build- 
ing bonds. [32 G. A., ch. 152, § 3.] 

Sec. 2812-e. Form — duration — rate of interest — where regis- 
tered. All of said bonds shall be substantially in the form pro- 
vided for county bonds, but subject to changes that will conform 
them to the action of the board providing therefor, shall run not 
more than twenty years, and may be sooner paid if so nominated 
in the bond; be in denomination of not more than one thousand 
dollars or less than one hundred dollars each, to bear a rate of 
interest not exceeding five per centum per annum, payable semi- 
annually, to be signed by the president and countersigned by the 
secretary of the board of directors, and shall not be disposed of 
for less than par value, nor issued for other purposes than this 
chapter provides. All of said bonds shall be registered in the 
office of the county auditor. The expenses of engraving and 
printing of bonds may be paid out of the contingent fund. [36 
G. A., ch. 325; § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 183, § 1 ; 32 G. A., ch. 152, § 4.] 

Sec. 2812-£ Redemption — treasurer, to keep record. When- 
ever the amount in the hands of the treasurer, belonging to the 
funds set aside to pay bonds, is sufficient to redeem one or more 
of the bonds which by their terms are subject to redemption, 
he shall give the owner of said bonds thirty (30) days' written 
notice of the readiness of the district to pay and the amount it 
desires to pay. If not presented for payment or redemption 
within thirty days after the date of such notice, the interest on 
such bonds shall cease and the amount due thereon shall be set 
aside for its payment whenever it is presented. All redemptions 
shall be made in the order of their numbers. The treasurer shall 
keep a record of the parties to whom the bonds are sold, to- 
gether wnth their postoffice addresses, and notice mailed to the 
address as shown by such record shall be sufficient. [32 G. A., 
ch. 152, § 5.] 

Sec. 2813. Tax to pay bonds or money borrowed. The board 
of each school corporation shall, when estimating and certifying 
the amount of money required for general purposes, estimate 
and certify to the board of supervisors of the proper county, the 
amount required to pay interest due or that may become due for 
the year beginning January first thereafter, upon lawful bonded 
indebtedness and in addition thereto such amount as the board 
may deem necessary to apply on the principal ; but the amount 
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one year shall not exceed five mills on the dollar of the actual 
valuation of the taxable property of the school corporation. [35 
G. A., ch. 252, § 1; 27 G. A., ch. 95, § 2 ; 18 G. A., ch. 51, § 2; 18 
G. A., ch. 132, § 6; C. 73, § 1823.] 

Sec. 2813-a. Tax levy. The board of supervisors of the coun- 
ty to which the certificate is addressed within the contemplation 
of this act shall levy the necessary tax to raise the amount esti- 
mated, or so much thereof as may be lawful and within the limi- 
tation of this act, which levy shall be made as other taxes for 
school purposes. [35 G. A., ch. 252, § 2.] 

Sec. 2813-b. To what applicable. This act shall apply to esti- 
mates heretofore made, certificates furnished, or taxes levied, 
together with such as may hereafter be made, furnished or levied 
for the purposes contemplated by this act; but this act shall not 
apply to pending litigation. [35 G. A., ch. 252, § 3.] 

Sec. 2814. Schoolhouse sites — acquisition. That section two 
thousand eight hundred and fourteen (2814) of the supplement 
to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the fol- 
lowing enacted as a substitute therefor: 

Any school corporation may take and hold so much real estate 
as may be required for schoolhouse sites, for the location or con- 
struction thereon of schoolhouses, and the convenient use there- 
of, but not to exceed two acres exclusive of public highway, ex- 
cept in a city, town or village or cities under special charter it may 
include two blocks or area equal thereto exclusive of the street or 
highway as the case may be, for any one site, and may also take 
and hold such additional real estate, not exceeding five acres as 
may be required for school playground or other purposes for each 
such site, or in districts consolidated under the provisions of 
section two thousand seven hundred ninety-four-a (2794-a) of 
the supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, may take and 
hold not to exceed ten acres, for any one site, such additional 
ground may be acquired by donation, which site must be upon 
some public road already established or procured by the board 
of directors and shall, except in cities, towns or villages, be at 
least thirty rods from the residence of any owner who objects 
to its being placed nearer, and not in any public park. The di- 
rectors in any independent district whose territory is composed 
wholly or in part of territory occupied by any city of the first 
class or city under special charter may, at their regular meeting 
in July, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, between 
the time designated for such regular meeting and the third Mon- 
day in August, certify an amount not exceeding four mills to the 
board of supervisors and they shall levy the amount so certified 
and the tax so levied shall be placed in the schoolhouse fund and 
used only for the purchase of sites in and for said school dis- 
trict. Anything contained in section twenty-seven hundred and 
forty-nine (2749) of the code to the contrary notwithstanding. 



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[38 G. A., ch. 125; Z7 G. A., ch. 26; 35 G. A., ch. 253, § 1 ; 32 
G. A., ch. 153;C. 73, §§ 1825-6.] 

In effect by publication April 3, 1919. 

That section twenty-eig-ht hundred and fourteen (2814) of the 
supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended 
by adding thereto the following as section twenty-eight hundred 
and fourteen-b (2814-b) : 

Sec. 2814-b. Purchase of abandoned private school grounds. 

Any school corporation in which there was organized and 
founded prior to the year 1902 a university with not to exceed 
forty acres of land upon which a school building or buildings have 
been erected which could be used for public school purposes, and 
said university did prior to the year 1914 abandon said school 
and place its property upon the market and the same is now 
owned by a church organization, said school corporation may 
purchase said land and buildings where the same are located in 
a city of the first class, provided the owner of said land and build- 
ings and the school corporation can agree as to the terms of sale 
and purchase price thereof. Said land and buildings, when so 
purchased, may be used for grade or high school purposes, school 
site or sites, playgrounds, athletic field, demonstration grounds, 
agricultural experiment grounds and other educational or school 
purposes. [Z7 G. A., ch. 400.] 

Sec. 2815. Condemnation. That section two thousand eight 
hundred fifteen (2815) of the code be and the same is hereby 
repealed and the following enacted as a substitute therefor: 

If the owner of any of the real estate desired for a schoolhouse 
site or sites, or a public road thereto, or for school playgrounds 
or other purposes for which any school corporation is, or may 
be authorized to take and hold real estate, refuses or neglects to 
convey the same, or is deceased, or is unknown or cannot be 
found, or if in the judgment of the board of directors of said 
school corporation they cannot agree with such owner, the coun- 
ty superintendent of the county in which said school corporation 
is located shall, upon the application of either party in interest, 
appoint three freeholders of said county not interested in the 
same or a like question, as referees, who shall take and subscribe 
an oath to the effect that they will faithfully and impartially dis- 
charge_ the duties laid upon them. The county superintendent 
shall give notice of the time and place of making the assessments 
of damages to the owner of such real estate as shown by the 
transfer books in the office of the county auditor of such county, 
and the person in possession thereof, or, if such owner as so 
shown by such transfer book is deceased, then such notice shall 
be given to the person or persons in possession of such real es- 
tate and to the owners of the beneficial interest therein, such 
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and in the same manner as for the commencement of actions in 
the district court. Such referees shall inspect the grounds pro- 
posed to be taken, fix the damage sustained as near as may be 
on the basis of the value of the real estate so appropriated, and 
report in writing to the county superintendent their doings and 
findings, which report shall be filed and preserved in his office; 
and upon the amount found by the referees being deposited with 
the county treasurer, for the use of such owner or owners, pos- 
session may at once be taken of such real estate and the neces- 
sary buildings erected and occupied. From the assessment so 
made either party may appeal to the district court by giving no- 
tice thereof as in case of taking private property for works of 
internal improvement within ten days after receiving notice of 
the award made. If such appeal is not taken, the assessment 
shall be final ; if taken, the board may proceed with the construc- 
tion of improvements, and may take possession of such real es- 
tate, if the deposit hereinbefore provided has been or shall be 
made. Such proceedings shall be void if the school corporation 
fails to deposit the amount due as hereinbefore provided within 
sixty days from and after the final determination of the proceed- 
ings upon appeal or otherwise. Upon such appeal the school 
corporation shall not be liable for costs unless the owner shall 
be allowed a greater sum than given by the referees; all costs 
of making the referees' assessment to be paid by the school cor- 
poration. 

Sec. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall 
take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the 
Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Daily Capital, news- 
papers published in Des Moines, Iowa. [37 G. A., ch. 26, § 2; 
C. 73, § 1827.] 

Sec. 2816. Reversion. That section twenty-eight hundred 
sixteen (2816), supplement to the code, 1913, is hereby repealed 
and the following enacted in lieu thereof : 

In school districts wholly outside any city or incorporated 
town, in case of non-user for school purposes continuously for 
two years of any real estate acquired for a schoolhouse site, it 
shall revert, with improvements thereon, to the owner of the 
tract from which it was taken, upon payment of the market value 
thereof, together with the value of the improvements thereon, 
to be determined by arbitration, and upon such payment the 
school corporation shall make a conveyance to such owner. If 
such owner refuses to accept the property at its appraised value, 
the school corporation may sell the same to any other person 
upon payment of the appraised value, or at public auction to the 
highest bidder. In either of the above cases the site and the 
improvements thereon may be sold separately. 

Schoolhouses and school sites no longer necessary for school 
purposes, because of being located in consolidated school dis- 

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tricts, may be sold immediately after the organization of such 
consolidated school district, in the manner above provided. Dur- 
ing its use no person owning a right of reversion shall have any 
interest in or control over the premises. 

This law shall not apply to districts in which schools have 
been temporarily closed by law on account of small attendance. 
[38 G. A., ch. 342; 34 G. A., ch. 144; C. 73, § 1828.] 

APPEAL. 

Sec. 2818. Appeal to county superintendent. Any person ag- 
grieved by any decision or order of the board of directors of any 
school corporation in a matter of law or fact may within thirty 
days after the rendition of such decision or the making of such 
order, appeal therefrom to the county superintendent of the 
proper county; the basis of the proceedings shall be an affidavit 
filed with the county superintendent by the party aggrieved 
within the time for taking the appeal, which affidavit shall set 
forth any error complaiiied of in a plain and concise manner. 
[C. 73, §§ 1829-31 ; R., §§ 2133-5.] 

Sec. 2819. Hearing and decision. The county superintendent 
shall, within five days after the filing of such affidavit in his 
office, notify the secretary of the proper school corporation in 
writing of the taking of such appeal; the latter shall, within ten 
days after being thus notified, file in the office of the county su- 
perintendent a complete transcript of the record and proceedings 
relating to the decision complained of, which transcript shall be 
certified to be correct by the secretary ; after the filing of the 
transcript aforesaid the county superintendent shall notify in 
writing all persons adversely interested of the time and place 
where the matter of the appeal will be heard by him. At the 
time fixed for the hearing he shall hear testimony for either party, 
and he shall make such decision as may be just and equitable, 
which shall be final unless appealed from as hereinafter provided. 
[C. 73, §§ 1832-4; R., §§ 2136-8.] 

Sec. 2820. Appeal to state superintendent — no money judg- 
ment. An appeal may be taken from the decision of the county 
superintendent to the superintendent of public instruction in the 
same manner as provided in this chapter for taking appeals from 
the board of a school corporation to the county superintendent, as 
nearly as applicable, except that thirty days' notice of the appeal 
shall be given by the appellant to the county superintendent, and 
also to the adverse party. The decision when made shall be final. 
Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to authorize either 
the county or state superintendent to render judgment for money ; 
neither shall they be allo-wed any other compensation than is 
now allowed by law. All necessary postage must first be paid by 
the party aggrieved. [C. 73, §§ 1835-6; R., §§ 2139-40.] 



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Sec. 2820-dl. Indebtedness authorized in certain districts. 

Any school corporation shall be allowed to become indebted for 
the purpose of building and furnishing a school house, or school 
houses and additions thereto, gymnasium, teachers' or superin- 
tendents' home or homes ; and procuring a site or sites therefor, 
or for the purpose of purchasing land to add to a site already 
owned, to an amount not to exceed in the aggregate, including all 
other indebtedness, five per centum of the actual value of the 
taxable property within such school corporation, such value to 
be ascertained by the last county tax list previous to the incurring 
of such indebtedness, anything contained in section thirteen hun- 
dred six-b (1306-b) supplement to the code, 1913, to the contrarv 
notwithstanding. [38 G. A., ch. 314; 35 G. A., ch. 254, § 1 ; 35 G. 
A., ch. 10, § 1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 145, § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 184, § 1.] 

Sec. 2820-d2. Petition for election. Provided, that before 
such indebtedness can be contracted in excess of one and one- 
quarter per centum of the actual value of the taxable property 
ascertained as provided in this act, a petition signed by a number 
equal to .twenty-five per cent of those voting at the last school 
election shall be filed with the president of the board of directors, 
asking that an election shall be called, stating the purpose for 
which the money is to be used, and that the necessary school- 
house^or houses cannot be built and furnished, or that sufficient 
land cannot be purchased to add to a site already owned, within 
the limit of one and one-quarter per centum of the valuation. 
[35 G. A., ch. 254, § 2; 34 G. A., ch. 145, § 2; 33 G. A., ch. 184, 
§2.] 

Sec. 2820-d3. Submission of question — notice — ballot. The 

president of the board of directors, on receipt of such petition 
shall, within ten days, call a meeting of the board who shall call 
such election, fixing the time and place thereof, which may be 
at the time and place of holding the regular school election. Four 
weeks' notice of such election shall be given by publication once 
each week, in some newspaper published in the said town or 
city, or if none be published therein, in the next nearest town or 
city in the county. At such election the ballot shall be prepared 
and used in substantially the following form: 

Shall the (naming the independent district) issue 

bonds in the sum of dollars 

($ ) for the purpose of constructing or 

equipping schoolhouses? [33 G. A., ch. 184, § 3.] 

Sec. 2820-d4. Bonds. If a majority of all the qualified voters 
voting at such election vote in favor of the issuance of such 
bonds, the board of directors shall issue the same and make pro- 
vision for the payment of the same and the interest thereon as 
provided in sections twenty-eight hundred twelve-d, twenty- 
eight hundred twelve-e. twenty-eight hundred twelve-f and twen- 
ty-eight hundred thirteen of the supplement to the code, 1907. 





Yes 


i No 



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Sec. 2. That in all cases where an election has been held in 
any school district, under the provisions of sections twenty-eig'ht 
hundred twenty-dl (2820-dl), twenty-eight hundred twenty-d2 
(2820-d2), twenty-eight hundred twenty-d3 (2820-d3), twenty- 
eight hundred twenty-d4 (2820-d4), and twenty-eight hundred 
twenty-d5 (2820-d5), supplement to the code, 1913, and a ma- 
jority of the votes cast, regardless of the sex of the voter, at such 
election was in favor of the issuance of bonds, and all bonds so 
authorized, whether heretofore issued or hereafter to be issued, 
are hereby legalized and validated. 

Sec. 3. This act shall not afifect pending litigation. [38 G. 
A., ch. 134; 33 G. A., ch. 184, § 4.] 

In effect by publication April 5, 1919. 

Sec. 2820-d5. To what applicable. But this act shall in no 
wise affect pending litigation nor act or acts of any school board 
under the statute or statutes herein repealed ; but the transac- 
tion, if any, may be completed with the same force and effect as 
if the statute were not repealed. [33 G. A., ch. 184, § 5.] 

Sec. 2820-e. Consolidation authorized. That in all cities of 
the first class containing a population of fifty thousand or over, 
according to any census taken by the authority or under the di- 
rection of the state of Iowa or of the United States, all the terri- 
tory embraced within the corporate limits of any such city may 
be consolidated into and become one independent school district, 
known as the independent school district of (naming the city), 
state of Iowa, in the manner following: [32 G. A., ch. 155, § 1.] 

Sec. 2820-f. Petition — question submitted — consolidation ef- 
fected — board of directors — officers. When a written petition, 
requesting the establishment of a consolidated independent dis- 
trict whose territory shall be co-extensive with that of such city, 
signed by one hundred voters of such city, is filed with the board 
of the school corporation therein having the largest number of 
voters, it shall be the duty of said board within ten days, to call 
an election, at which all the voters residing in the proposed dis- 
trict shall be allowed to vote by ballot for or against the propo- 
sition, "Shall all the territory within the city of (naming it) be 
united into one school district?" The board calling said election 
shall divide the territory within the proposed district into such 
number of precincts as the board shall determine, and the judges 
of election shall make and certify a return of the vote to the sec- 
retary of the same board which shall, on the next Monday after 
the election, canvass the returns made to the secretary, ascertain 
the result of the election, declare the same and cause a record to 
be made thereof, and in all other respects, except as inconsistent 
with the provisions of this act, the election shall be conducted 
as provided by law for elections in independent school districts 
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election is favorable to the proposition, the consolidation and 
formation of said independent district shall thereby be eflfected, 
and the board of directors, treasurer, and other officers of the 
school corporation then holding office in the district affected by 
such consolidation having- the largest number of voters, shall be- 
come the board of directors, treasurer and other officers of such 
consolidated district, and shall continue to hold their respective 
offices until the terms for which they were originally elected 
shall expire. The terms of office of all directors, treasurers and 
officers of boards in all the other districts affected by this act, 
lying wholly within such consolidated district and holding office 
at the time of such consolidation, shall cease and determine, and 
in case of districts lying partly without such consolidated dis- 
trict, the directors, officers and treasurers shall continue to have 
authority only over the territory lying within their district, and 
without the consolidated district; provided that nothing herein 
contained shall affect the terms of employment of superintend- 
ents, principals, or teachers for the current school year, in which 
such consolidation may be effected. [32 G. A., ch. 155, § 2.] 

Sec. 2820-g. Taxes. All taxes previously certified during 
that year shall be void so far as the property within the limits 
of the consolidated independent district is concerned. And all 
taxes necessary for the new corporation for that year shall be 
certified and levied as provided in section twenty-seven hundred 
ninety-six of the code. All property belonging to districts af- 
fected by such consolidation shall become the property of the 
consolidated district, except that in case of districts lying partly 
without such city, the Irabilities and assets of such districts shall, 
be equitably apportioned in accordance with chapter one hun- 
dred thirty-six, section thirteen, acts of the thirty-first general 
assembly, but nothing herein contained shall affect the rights of 
existing creditors. [32 G. A., ch. 155, § 3.] 

Sec. 2820-h. Election expense. The expense of such election 
shall be borne by the consolidated district, in case such district 
shall be formed, otherwise by the separate districts in proportion 
to the assessed valuation therein within the proposed consoli- 
dated district. [32 G. A., ch. 155, § 4.] 

Sec. 2821. Witnesses — fees. The county superintendent in 
all matters triable before him shall have power to issue sub- 
poenas for witnesses, which may be served by any peace officer, 
compel the attendance of those thus served, and the giving of 
evidence by them, in the same manner and to the same extent 
as the district court may do, and such witnesses and officers may 
be allowed the same compensation as is paid for like attendance 
or service in such court, which shall be paid out of the contingent 
fund of the proper school corporation, upon the certificate of the 
superintendent to and warrant of the secretary upon the treas- 
urer ; but if the superintendent is of the opinion that the pro- 
ceedings were instituted without reasonable cause therefor, or if, 



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in case of an appeal, it shall not be sustained, he shall enter such 
findings in the record, and tax all costs to the party responsible 
therefor. A transcript thereof shall be filed in the office of the 
clerk of the district court and a judgment entered thereon by 
him, which shall be collected as other judgments. [First ap- 
peared in the code of 1897.] 

irj 

Sec. 2822. Penalties. Any school officer wilfully violating 
any provision of this chapter, or wilfully failing or refusing to 
perform any duty imposed by law, shall forfeit and pay into the 
treasury of the particular school corporation in which the viola- 
tion occurs the sum of twent3'-five dollars, action to recover 
which shall be broug-ht in the name of the proper school corpora- 
tion, and be applied to the use of the schools therein. [C. '73, 
1746, 1786; R., §§ 2047, 2081 ; C. '51, § 1137.] 

Sec. 2823. Provisions apply to all corporations — issuance of 
bonds. The provisions of this chapter shall apply alike to all 
districts, except when otherwise clearly stated, and the power 
given to one form of corporation, or to a board in one known 
corporation, shall be exercised by the other in the same manner, 
as nearly as practicable. But school boards shall not incur orig- 
inal indebtedness by the issuance of bonds until authorized by 
the voters of the school corporation. [First appeared in the 
code of 1897.] 

What Included. The chapter referred to in this section includes every- 
thing in the school laws from section 2743 to section 2S23-t inclusive. 

COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. 

Sec. 2823-a. Duties of parents and guardians — penalty ex- 
ceptions. Any person having control of any child of the age of 
seven to sixteen years inclusive, in proper ph3^sical and mental 
condition to attend school, shall cause such child to attend some 
public, private, or parochial school, where the common school 
branches of reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, 
geography, physiology, and United States history are taught, or 
to attend upon equivalent instruction by a competent teacher 
elsewhere than school, for at least twenty-four consecutive school 
weeks in each school 3^ear, commencing with the first week of 
school after the first day of September, unless the board of 
school directors shall determine upon a later date which date 
shall not be later than the first Monday in December; but the 
board of school directors in any city of the first or second class 
may require attendance for the entire time the schools are in 
session in any school year. Provided that this section shall not 
appty to any child who lives more than two miles from any school 
by the nearest traveled road except in those districts in which 
the pupils are transported at public expense, or who is over the 
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qualifications equal to those of pupils who have completed the 
eighth grade ; or who is excused for sufficient reasons by any 
court of record or judge thereof; or while attending religious 
service or receiving religious instructions. Any person who shall 
violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less 
than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars, for each offense. 
[35 G. A., ch. 255, § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 187, § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 186, 
§ 1 ; 30 G. A., ch. 116, § 1 ; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 1.] 

Sec. 2823-b. Reports to secretary. Upon notice from the 
secretary of the school corporation within which such school is 
conducted, it shall be the duty of each principal of each private 
or parochial school, once during each school year, and at any time 
when requested in individual cases, and within ten days from the 
receipt of such notice, to furnish to such secretary a certificate 
and report of the names, ages and attendance of the pupils in at- 
tendance at such school during the preceding year and from the 
time of the last preceding report to the time at which a report is 
required and any person having the control of any child between 
seven and fourteen years of age inclusive, who shall place the 
same under private instruction, not in a regularly conducted 
school, upon receiving notice from the secretary of the school 
corporation, shall furnish a like certificate stating the name and 
age of such child and the period of time during which said child 
has been under said private instruction; and any person having 
the control of such child who is physically or mentally unable 
to attend school, public or private, shall furnish proofs by affi- 
davit or affidavits as to the physical or mental condition of such 
child. All such certificates, reports and proofs shall be filed and 
preserved in the office of the secretary of the school corporation 
as a part of the records of his office. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 2.] 

Sec. 2823-c. Certified copies. It shall be the duty of the sec- 
retary of the school corporation to furnish to any person inter- 
ested, where so requested, certified copies of all certificates con- 
templated by this act, on file in his office. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 3.] 

Sec. 2823-d. Truant schools. The board of directors of any 
school corporation may establish truant schools, or set apart 
separate rooms in any public school building, for the instruction 
of children who are habitually truant from instruction, as con- 
templated by this act. Such directors may provide for the con- 
finement, maintenance, and instruction of such children in such 
schools, under such reasonable rules and regulations as they may 
prescribe. If any child, committed or sent to the truant school 
shall prove insubordinate and escape from such school during 
school hours, or absent himself or herself therefrom without the 
consent of the persons in charge thereof, then it shall be the duty 
of the person in charge of said school with the consent of the 
parent or guardian to file information before the judge of a court 



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of record, who may, if the charge be found to be true and the 
said child be habitually vagrant, disorderly, or incorrigible com- 
mit such child to one of the industrial schools of the state, under 
the same proceeding as is provided by section twenty-seven hun- 
dred eight (2708) of the code so far as the same may be appli- 
cable. [29 G. A, ch. 128, § 4.] 

Sec. 2823-e. Truant officers. The board of directors of each 
school corporation may, and in school corporations having a 
population of twenty thousand (20,000) or more shall, at their 
annual meeting in each year, appoint one or more truant officers, 
who shall serve for one year, and who may be a constable or a 
member of the police force, whose duty it shall be to report vio- 
lations of this act to the secretary of the school corporation, and 
see to the enforcement of the provisions of this act. It shall be 
the duty of said truant officer or officers to apprehend and take 
into custody without warrant any child of the age of seven (7) 
to fourteen (14) years inclusive, who habitually frequents or 
loiters about public places during school hours without lawful 
occupation, or cannot produce a certificate as provided in section 
two (2) hereof, also any truant child who absents himself or 
herself from school, and place him or her in charge of the teacher 
having charge of any school, which said child is entitled to at- 
tend, and which school may be designated to said officers by the 
person having legal control of such child. Provided, however, 
in case the school so designated by the parent or person having 
the care and control of said dhild be a public school it shall be 
such as directed by the rules and regulations of the school board 
and the statutes of the state, and if other than a public school, 
the maintenance of said child in such school shall be without 
expense to the school corporation or state. Upon failure of 
such child to properly attend or when on report of the teacher 
having the custody of such child, said child is shown to not prop- 
erly conduct itself in the school where placed as herein provided, 
the child may be removed therefrom by the board of directors 
and placed either in a public school or a truant school conducted 
in said district. The truant officer or officers shall be entitled 
to such compensation for service rendered under this act, as shall 
be fixed by the board of directors appointing him or them, which 
compensation shall be paid from the contingent fund of said dis- 
trict. In towns and cities of the second class, the independent 
school district may employ the marshal or other police officer 
of such city or town to act as truant officer, and pay him a salary 
in addition to that received from such city or town of not to ex- 
ceed five ($5.00) dollars per month. [33 G. A., ch. 188; 30 G. 
A., ch. 116, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 5.] 

Sec 2823-f. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the director 
or president of any board of directors, or any truant officers ap- 
pointed by such board of directors, to enforce the provisions of 
this act, to sue for and recover the penalties herein provided, and 



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to institute criminal prosecution against any person violating 
the provisions of this act, and any such officers neglecting to do 
so within thirty (30) days after a written notice has been served 
upon him by any citizen of said district or the county superin- 
tendent of the county within which the offending person shall 
reside, shall himself be liable for a fine of not less than ten ($10) 
dollars nor more than twenty ($20) dollars for each offense. 
[32 G. A., ch. 154; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 6.] 

Sec. 2823-g. Teachers and school officers — duties. All teach- 
ers of the public schools of the state, and county superintendents, 
and school officers and employees shall promptly report to the 
secretary of the school corporation any violations of the pro- 
visions of this act, of which they have knowledge or information, 
and he shall promptly inform the president of the board of direc- 
tors thereof, and such president shall, if necessary, call a meet- 
ing of the board of directors to take such action thereon as the 
facts shall justify, and any child placed in any truant school may 
be discharged therefrom at the discretion of the board, upon 
sufficient assurance of the future good conduct of such child. 
[29 G. A., ch. 128, § 7.] 

Sec. 2823-h. Provisions for punishment. The board of direc- 
tors of every school corporation is hereby authorized to provide 
such reasonable methods of punishment of children who are 
habitually truant from school, or who habitually frequent or 
loiter about public places during school hours, without lawful 
occupation, as may be necessary to carry out and make effectual 
the provisions of this act. [29 G. A., ch. 128, § 8.] 

Sec. 2823-i. School census. It shall be the duty of all offi- 
cers, empowered to take the school census, to ascertain the num- 
ber of children of the ages of seven to sixteen years, inclusive, 
in their respective districts, the number of such children who 
do not attend school, and so far as possible the cause of failure 
to attend school. [35 G. A., ch. 255, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 128, § 9.] 

SCHOOL LAWS— SALE. 

Sec. 2823- j. Compilation — number — distribution. The super- 
intendent of public instruction shall every four years, if deemed 
necessary, cause to be printed, bound and distributed all school 
laws in force up to that time, the number to be determined by 
the executive council. Each county superintendent shall be fur- 
nished a sufficient number of copies to supply the school officers 
of the state and such others as may request them. [35 G. A., ch. 
256, § 1 ; 27 G. A., ch. 90, § 1.] 

LIBRARIES. • 

Sec. 2823-n. Library fund. The treasurer of each school 
township and each rural independent district in this state shall 



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withhold annually, from the money received from the apportion- 
ment for the several school districts, not less than five nor more 
than fifteen cents, as may be ordered by the board, for each per- 
son of school age residing in each school corporation, as shown 
by the annual report of the secretary, for the purchase of books 
as hereinafter provided. When so ordered by the board of di- 
rectors, the provisions of this section shall apply to any inde- 
pendent district. [28 G. A., ch. 23, § 1.] 

Sec. 2823-0. Purchase of books — distribution. Between the 
third Monday of September and the first day of December in 
each year the president and secretary of the board, with the as- 
sistance of the county superintendent of schools, shall expend all 
money withheld by the treasurer as provided in section one of 
this act, in the purchase of books selected from the lists prepared 
by the state board of educational examiners as hereinafter pro- 
vided, for the use of the school district; in school townships the 
secretary shall distribute the books thus selected to the libra- 
rians among the several subdistricts, and at least semi-annually 
collect the same and distribute others. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 2.] 

Sec. 2823-p. State board of educational examiners to prepare 
list of books. It is hereby made the duty of the state board of 
educational examiners to prepare at its discretion lists of books 
suitable for use in school district libraries, and furnish copies of 
such lists to each president, secretary, and each county superin- 
tendent, as often as the same shall be published or revised, from 
which lists the several presidents and secretaries and county su- 
perintendents shall select and purchase books. [33 G. A., ch. 
189; 28 G. A., ch. 110, § 3.] 

Sec. 2823-q. Record book. It shall be the duty of each sec- 
retary to keep in a record book, furnished by the board of di- 
rectors, a complete record of the books purchased and distributed 
by him. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 4.] 

Sec. 2823-r. Librarian. Unless the board of directors shall 
elect some other person, the secretary in independent districts 
and director in subdistricts in school townships shall act as li- 
brarian and shall receive and have the care and custody of the 
books, and shall loan them to teachers, pupils, and other residents 
of the district, in accordance with the rules and regulations pre- 
scribed by the state board of educational examiners and board 
of directors. Each librarian shall keep a complete record of the 
books in a record book furnished by the board of directors. Dur- 
ing the periods that the school is in session the library shall be 
placed in the schoolhouse, and the teacher shall be responsible 
to the district for its proper care and protection. The board of 
directors shall have supervision of all books and shall make an 
equitable distribution thereof among the schools of the corpora- 
tion. [28 G. A., ch. 110, § 5.] 



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VOCAL MUSIC 

Sec. 2823-s. Instruction in vocal music authorized. That the 
elements of vocal music, including when practical the singing of 
simple music by note, be taught in all of the public schools of 
Iowa, and that all teachers teaching in schools where such in- 
struction is not given by special teachers be required to satisfy 
the county superintendent of their ability to teach the elements 
of vocal music in a proper manner. Provided, however, that no 
teacher shall be refused a certificate or the grade of his or her 
certificate lowered on account of lack of ability to sing. [28 G. 
A., ch. 109, § 1.] 

Sec. 2823-t. Normal institute. That it shall be the duty of 
each county superintendent to have taught annually in the nor- 
mal institute the elements of vocal music. [28 G. A., ch. 109, 
§ 2.] 

OF PUBLIC RECREATION AND PLAY GROUNDS. 

Sec, 2823-u. Establishments — maintenance — supervision. 

Boards of school directors in school districts containing or con- 
tained in cities of the first or second class, cities under special 
charter, or cities under the commission plan of government, are 
hereby authorized to establish and maintain for children in the 
public school buildings and on the public school grounds under 
the custody and management of such boards, public recreation 
places and playgrounds and necessary accommodations for same, 
without charge to the residents of said school district; also to 
co-operate with the commissioners or boards having the custody 
and management in such cities of public parks and public build- 
ings and grounds of whatever sort, and by making arrangements 
satisfactory to such boards controlling public parks and grounds 
to provide for the supervision, instruction and oversight neces- 
sary to carry on public educational and recreational activities, 
as described in this section in buildings and upon grounds in the 
custody and under the management of such commissioners or 
boards having charge of public parks and public buildings on 
grounds of whatever sort, in such cities of the first or second 
class, cities under special charter, or cities under commission plan 
of government, [35 G, A., ch. 257, § 1.] 

Sec. 2823-ul. Tax levy — petition — submission. The board 
of directors of any school district containing, or contained in, 
any city of the first or second class, city under special charter, 
or city under the commission plan of government, may, and upon 
petition to that efifect signed by legally qualified voters aggregat- 
ing not less than twenty-five per cent of the number voting at 
the last preceding school election, shall submit to the electors of 
such school district the question of levying a tax as in this act 
provided; and if a majority of the votes cast upon such propo- 



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sition be in favor thereof, then the board of school directors shall 
proceed to organize the work as authorized in this act and levy a 
tax therefor at the time and in the manner provided in section 3 
of this act. If at the time of filing said petition it shall be more 
than three months till the next regular school election, then the 
board of school directors shall submit said question at a special 
election within sixty days. [35 G. A,, ch. 257, § 2.] 

Sec. 2823-U2. Certification to board of supervisors — collec- 
tion — limitation. Boards of school directors in such districts 
shall fix and certify to the board of supervisors on or before the 
first Monday of September the amount of money required for the 
next fiscal year for the support of the aforementioned activities, 
in the same m.anner as the amount of necessary taxes for other 
school purposes is certified and said board of supervisors shall 
levy and collect a tax upon all the property subject to taxation 
in said school district at the same time and in the same manner 
as other taxes are levied and collected by law which shall be 
equal to the amount of money so required for such purposes by 
the said board of school directors as provided in this act; pro- 
vided that the tax so levied upon each dollar of the assessed 
valuation of all property, real and personal in said district, sub- 
ject to taxation, shall not in any one year exceed two mills for 
the purpose of the activities hereinbefore mentioned in this act ; 
the said tax shall not be used or appropriated directly or indi- 
rectly for any other purpose than provided in this act. [35 G. 
A., ch. 257, § 3.] 

Sec. 2823-U3. Duties of school treasurer. All moneys re- 
ceived by, or raised in such city for the aforementioned purpose 
shall be paid over to the treasurer of the school district, to be 
disbursed by him on orders of such board of school directors in 
such district in the same manner as other funds of said school 
district are disbursed by him, but the tax provided for in this act 
shall not be levied or collected nor shall the board of school di- 
rectors, as provided in this act, have authority to certify the 
amount of taxes necessary for this purpose until after the ques- 
tion of the levy of such tax shall have been authorized by a ma- 
jority vote at a regular or special election. [35 G. A., ch. 257, 
§ 4.] 

Sec. 2823-U4. Annual levy. After the question of the levy of 
such special tax has been submitted to and approved by the vot- 
ers as provided in this act, the authority shall remain, and such 
tax shall be levied and collected annually until such time as the 
voters of the school district of such city shall by majority vote 
order the discontinuance of the levy and collection of such tax. 
[35 G. A., ch. 257, § 5.] 

Sec. 2823-U5. Discontinuance of levy — submission of ques- 
tion. The board of school directors in any district governed by 
this act may, and on petition to that effect signed by legally 



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qualified voters aggregating not less than twenty-five per cent 
of the number voting at the last preceding school election, shall 
submit to the electors of such school district the question of dis- 
continuing the levying of such tax as may have been previously 
authorized under the provisions of this act, and if a majority of 
the votes cast upon such proposition be in favor thereof, then the 
levying of such tax shall be discontinued and shall not be re- 
sumed unless again authorized under the provisions of section 
two of this act. [35 G. A., ch. 257, § 6.] 

Sec. 2823-U6. Appropriation by city. The board of school di- 
rectors in any district governed by this act is also empowered 
to receive and expend for the purpose of this act, any sums of 
money appropriated and turned over to them by the city council 
or commissioners of such city for such purposes; and the city 
council or commissioners of such city shall have authority to ap- 
propriate and turn over to the board of school directors of the 
school district containing or contained in such city, any reason- 
able sums of money which the said council or commissioners 
may desire to appropriate out of the general funds of such city 
and turn over to the said board of school directors for the pur- 
poses herein set forth. [35 G. A., ch. 257, § 7.] 

Sec. 2823-U7. Power to acquire land for school garden or farm 
— summer home — objects and purposes. The school board in 
cities including cities under special charters and commission form, 
having a population of twenty thousand or more, is hereby em- 
powered to purchase or lease for educational purposes a tract of 
land outside of the boundaries of such city, for a school garden 
or school farm in like manner and under the same restrictions as 
in the case of school property in the said city and to erect suitable 
buildings thereon, and to furnish the same, and to appoint man- 
agers in a suitable manner. The said tract of land to be main- 
tained for the purpose of providing a summer home for pupils 
of the city who may desire to continue their study all the year 
around, and for supplying to them an opportunity to perform 
productive work in such vocational lines as agronomy, olericul- 
ture, viticulture, apiculture, pomology, agriculture, and the auxil- 
iary arts, carpentry, masonry and any other wholesome and volun- 
tary employment and to diversify such work with open air exer- 
cises and recreations of both physical and intellectual character; 
also for enabhng the pupils of the elementary schools and of the 
high school opportunities for visitation and observational study 
at all seasons in connection with their school work; it being the 
intent and purpose of this statute to develop in the state of Iowa 
the educational principle and work commonly comprised in the 
name "Park Life," as exemplified experimentally and discussed 
educationally and sociologically in this state. 

Where such school garden or school farm is maintained, the 
said school board shall seek to correlate its functions with the 



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regular work of the schools in the most practical and efficient 
manner. [36 G. A. ch. 236, § 1.] 

TEX';' BOOKS— ADOPTION— PURCHASE— LOANING. 

Sec. 2824. Adoption — contract — agent. The board of direc- 
tors of each and every school corporation in the state of Iowa is 
hereby authorized and empowered to adopt text-books for the 
teaching of all branches that are now or may hereafter be author- 
ized to be taught in the public schools of the state, and to con- 
tract for and buy said books and any and all other necessary 
school supplies at said contract prices, and to sell the same to the 
pupils of their respective districts at cost, and said money so re- 
ceived shall be returned to the contingent fund. The books and 
supplies so purchased shall be under the charge of the board, who 
may select one or more persons within the county to keep said 
books and supplies for sale, and, to insure the safety of the books 
and moneys, the board shall require of each person so appointed a 
bond in such sum as may seem to the board to be desirable. [25 
G. A., ch. 35 ; 23 G. A., ch. 24, §§ 1, 2.] 

Sec. 2825. Use of general fund — additional tax. All the books 

and other supplies purchased under the provisions of this chapter 
shall be paid for out of the general fund, and the board of direc- 
tors shall annually certify to the board of supervisors the addi- 
tional amount necessary to levy for the general fund of said dis- 
trict to pay for such books and supplies. But such additional 
amount shall not exceed in any one year the sum of one dollar 
and fifty cents for each pupil residing in the school corporation, 
and the amount so levied shall be paid out on warrants drawn 
for the payment of books and supplies only, but the district shall 
contract no debt for that purpose. [37 G. A. ch. 386 § 10; 25 G. 
A., ch.35;G. A., ch.24, §2.] 

Sec. 2826. Purchase — exchange. In the purchasing of text- 
books it shall be the duty of the board of directors or the county 
board of education to take into consideration the books then in 
use in the respective districts, and they may buy such additional 
number of said books as may from time to time become neces- 
sary to supply their schools, and they may arrange on equitable 
terms for exchange of books in use for new books adopted. [25 
G. A., ch. 35; 23 G. A., ch. 24, § 3.] 

Sec. 2827. Suit on bond. If at any time the publishers of such 
books as shall have been adopted by any board of directors or 
county board of education shall neglect or refuse to furnish such 
books when ordered by said board in accordance with the pro- 
visions of this chapter, at the very lowest price, either contract or 
wholesale, that such books are furnished any other district or 
state board, then said board of directors or county board of edu- 



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cation may and it is hereby made their duty to bring suit upon 
the bond given them bv the contracting pubHsher. [25 G. A., 
ch. 35: 23 G. A., ch. 24, '§ 4.] 

T'jc. 2828. Bids. Before purchasing text-books under the 
I'tovisions of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the board of 
directors, or county board of education, to advertise, by publish- 
ing a notice once each week for three consecutive weeks in one 
or more newspapers published in the county ; said notice shall 
state the time up to which all bids will be received ; the classes 
and grades for which text-books and other necessary supplies are 
to be bought, and the approximate quantity needed; and said 
board shall award the contract for said text-books and supplies 
to any responsible bidder or bidders ofifering suitable text-books 
and supplies at the lowest prices, taking into consideration the 
quality of material used, illustrations, binding, and all other 
things that go to make up a desirable text-book; and may, to 
the end that they may be fully advised, consult the county super- 
intendent, or, in case of city independent districts, with city 
superintendent or other competent person, with reference to the 
selection of text-books, provided, that the board may reject any 
and all bids, or any part thereof, and readvertise therefor as above 
provided. [31 G. A., ch. 9, § 4; 25 G. A., ch. 35; 23 G. A., ch. 24, 
§5.] 

Sec. 2829 Change — question submitted. It shall be unlawful 
for any board of directors or county board of education, except 
as provided in section twenty-eight hundred and twenty-seven of 
this chapter, to displace or change any text-book that has been 
regularly adopted or re-adopted under the provisions of this chap- 
ter, before the expiration of five years from the date of such adop- 
tion or re-adoption, unless authorized to do so by a majority of 
the electors present and voting at their regular annual meeting 
in March, due notice of said proposition to change or displace said 
text-books having been included in the notice for the said regular 
meeting. [25 G. A., ch. 35 ; 23 G. A., ch. 24, § 6.] 

Sec. 2830. Samples — lists — bonds. Any person or firm desir- 
ing to furnish books or supplies under this chapter in any county 
shall, at or before the time of filing his bid hereunder, deposit in 
the office of the county superintendent samples of all text-books 
included in his bid, accompanied with lists giving the lowest 
wholesale and contract prices for the same. And said samples 
and lists shall remain in the county superintendent's office, and 
shall be delivered by him to his successor in office, and shall be 
kept by him in such safe and convenient manner as to be open at 
all times to the inspection of such school officers, school patrons 
and school teachers as may desire to examine the same and com- 
pare them with others, for the purpose of use in the public 
schools. The board of directors and the county board of educa- 
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they contract for furnishing any books or supplies to enter into 
a o-ood and sufficient bond, in such sum and with such conditions 
and sureties as may be required by such board of directors or 
county board of education, for the faithful performance of any 
such contract. But bonds of surety companies duly authorized 
under the laws of Iowa shall be accepted. [25 G. A., ch. 35 ; 23 
G. A., ch. 24, § 7.] 

Sec. 2831. County board of education — question as to county 
uniformity. When petitions shall have been signed by one- 
third the school directors in any county, other than those in cities 
and towns, and filed in the office of the county superintendent of 
such county at least thirty days before the annual school elec- 
tions, asking for a uniform series of text-books in the county, 
then such county superintendent shall immediately notify the 
other members of the county board of education in writing, and 
within fifteen days after the filing of the petitions said board of 
education shall meet and provide for submitting to the electors 
at the next annual meeting the question of county uniformity of 
school text-books. [28 G. A., ch. Ill ; 25 G. A., ch. 35; 23 G. A., 
ch. 24, §§ 8, 9.] 

Sec. 2832. Selection of books — depositories. Should a major- 
ity of the electors voting at such elections favor a uniform series 
of text-books for use in said county, then the county board of 
education shall meet and select the school text-books for the en- 
tire county, and contract for the same under such rules and regu- 
lations as the said board of education may adopt. When a list 
of text-books has been so selected, they shall be used by all the 
public schools of said county, except as hereinafter provided, and 
the board of education may arrange for such depositories as it 
may deem best, and may pay for said school books out of the 
county funds, and sell them to the school districts at the same 
price as provided for in section twenty-eight hundred and twenty- 
four of this chapter, and the money received from said sales shall 
be returned to the county funds by said board of education 
monthly. The boards of school officers, who are hereby made 
the judges of the school meetings, shall certify to the board of 
supervisors the full returns of the votes cast at said meetings the 
next day after the holding of said meetings, who shall, at their 
next regular meeting, proceed to canvass said votes and declare 
the result. Unless otherwise ordered by the board of education, 
the county superintendent shall have charge of such text-books 
and of. the distribution thereof among the depositories selected 
by the board ; he shall render to the board at each meeting thereof 
itemized accounts of his doings, and shall be liable on his official 
bond therefor. [28 G. A., ch. 112; 25 G. A., ch. 35; 23 G. A., ch. 
24, § 9.] 

Sec. 2833. Proceedings of county board. The county superin- 
tendent shall in all cases be chairman of the county board of edu- 



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cation, and a full and complete record shall be kept of their pro- 
ceedings in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the county- 
superintendent. A list of text-books so selected, with their con- 
tract prices, shall be reported to the state superintendent with 
the regular annual report of the county superintendent. [25 G. 
A., ch. 35;23 G. A., ch. 24, § 10.] 

Sec. 2834. Officers not to be agents. It shall be unlawful for 
any school director, teacher, or member of the county board of 
education to act as agent for any school text-books or school 
supplies during such term of office or employment, and any school 
director, officer, teacher or member of the county board of edu- 
cation who shall act as agent or dealer in school text-books or 
school supplies, during the term of such office or employment, 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic- 
tion thereof, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one 
hundred dollars, and pay the costs of prosecution. [25 G. A., ch. 
35; 23 G. A., ch. 24, § 11.] 

Sec. 2835. City schools. The provisions of sections twenty- 
eight hundred and thirty-one, twenty-eight hundred and thirty- 
two and twenty-eight hundred and thirty-three of this chapter 
shall not apply to schools located within cities or towns, nor shall 
the electors of said cities or towns vote upon the question of 
county uniformity ; but nothing herein shall be so construed as to 
prevent such schools in said cities and towns from adopting and 
buying the books adopted by the county board of education at the 
prices fixed by them, if b}^ a vote of the electors they shall so 
decide. [25 G. A., ch. 35 ; 23 G. A., ch. 24, § 12.] 

Sec. 2836. Free text-books — question submitted. Whenever a 
petition signed by ten per cent of the qualified voters, to be deter- 
mined by the school board of any school corporation, shall be 
filed with the secretary thirty days or more before the annual 
meeting of the electors, asking that the question of providing free 
text-books for the use of pupils in the public schools thereof be 
submitted to the voters at the next annual meeting, he shall 
cause notice of such proposition to be given in the call for such 
meeting. [37 G. A., ch. 56; 26 G. A., ch. 37 § 1.] 

Sec. 2837. Loaning — discontinuance. If, at such meeting, a 
majority of the legal voters present and voting by ballot thereon 
shall authorize the board of directors of said school corporation 
to loan text-books to the pupils free of charge, then the board 
shall procure such books as shall be needed, in the manner pro- 
vided by law for the purchase of text-books, and loan them to 
the pupils. The board shall hold pupils responsible for any dam- 
age to, loss of, or failure to return any such books, and shall 
adopt such rules and regulations as may be reasonable and neces- 
sary for the keeping and preservation thereof. Any pupil shall 
be allowed to purchase any text-book used in the school at cost. 
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others without charge until needed. The electors may, at any 
election called as provided in the last section, direct the board 
to discontinue the loaning of text-books to pupils. [26 G. A., ch. 
37, §§ 2-6.] 

Sec. 5028-s. What prohibited. That no bills, posters or other 
matters used to advertise the sales of intoxicating liquors and 
tobacco shall be distributed, posted, painted or maintained within 
four hundred feet of premises occupied by a public school or 
used for school purposes, provided, however, that nothing in 
this act contained shall apply to advertisements in newspapers 
of regular publications distributed to subscribers or purchasers 
thereof. [30 G. A., ch. 137, § 1.] 

Sec. 5028-t. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provi- 
sions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not ex- 
ceeding thirty days. [30 G. A., ch. 137, § 2.] 

BEQUESTS— CORPORATIONS MAY RECEIVE. 

Sec. 740. Power to take property by gift or bequest — how ad- 
ministered. Counties, cities, towns and school corporations, are 
authorized to take and hold property, real and personal, derived 
by gifts and bequests ; and to administer the same through their 
proper ofificers in pursuance of the terms of the gift or bequest ; 
and when made for the establishment of institutions of learning 
or benevolence, and there is no provisions made in the gift or 
bequest for the execution of the trust, the court having charge of 
the probate proceedings in the county shall appoint three trus- 
tees, residents of said county, who shall have charge and control 
the same, and who shall continue to act until removed by the 
court. And they shall give bond as required in case of executors, 

to be approved in the same manner as in case of executors' bonds, 
and said trustees shall be subject to the orders of said court. [28 
G. A., ch. 23, § 1 ; 26 G. A., ch. 20.] 

Sec. 1306-b. Amount of indebtedness limited. That section 
thirteen hundred and six-b of the supplement to the code (1902) 
and chapter forty-three of the acts of the thirtieth general assem- 
bly be and the same are hereby repealed, and the following en- 
acted in lieu thereof: 

"No county or other political or municipal corporation shall be 
allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to 
an amount exceeding in the aggregate the amount of one and 
one-fourth per centum of the actual value of the taxable property 
within such county or corporation, except that cities and incorpo- 
rated towns may for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, extend- 
ing or maintaining and operating waterworks, electric light and 
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constructing sewers, incur an indebtedness, not exceeding in the 
aggregate, added to all other indebtedness, five per centum of 
the actual value of the taxable property within such city or incor- 
porated town. The amount of such taxable property shall be 
ascertained by the last state and county tax list previous to the 
incurring of such indebtedness." [33 G. A., ch. 82, § 1 ; 31 G. A., 
ch. 49, § 1 ; 30 G. A., ch. 43 ; 28 G. A., ch. 41, § 2.] 

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. 

Sec. 2728. How established. Any county may establish a high 
school in the following manner : When the board of supervisors 
shall be presented with a petition signed by one-third of the 
electors of the county as shown by the returns of the last preced- 
ing election, requesting the establishment of a county high school 
at a place in the county named therein, it shall submit the ques- 
tion together with the amount of tax to be levied to erect the 
necessary buildings, at the next general election to be held in the 
county, or at a special one called for that purpose, first giving 
twenty days' notice thereof in one or more newspapers published 
in the county, if any be published therein, and by posting such 
notice, written or printed, in each township of the county, at 
which election the vote shall be by ballot, for or against establish- 
ing the high school, and for or against the levying of the tax, the 
vote to be canvassed in the same manner as that for county offi- 
cers. Should a majority of all the votes cast upon the question 
be in favor of establishing such school, and the levying of such 
tax, the board of supervisors shall at once appoint six trustees, 
residents of the county, not more than two from the same town- 
ship, who, with the county superintendent of common schools 
as president, shall constitute a board of trustees for said high 
school. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 1 ; C. 73, §§ 1697-9, 1701.] 

Sec. 2729. Trustees — officers. The trustees, within ten days 
after appointment, shall qualify by taking the oath of civil offi- 
cers, and giving bond in such sum as the board of supervisors 
may require, with sureties to be approved by it, and shall hold 
office until their successors are elected and qualified, who shall 
be elected at the general election following. The trustees then 
elected shall be divided into two classes of three each and hold 
their office two and four years respectively, their several terms to 
be decided by lot ; and in all county high schools heretofore estab- 
lished the terms of all trustees therefor shall expire on the first 
day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, and at the general 
election in nineteen hundred and six there shall be six trustees 
elected for each of said county high schools, three of whom shall 
be elected for two years, and three of whom for four years, and 
at each general election thereafter three trustees shall be elected 
for the- term of four years, the trustees so elected to qualify in 
the same manner and at the same time as other county officers 
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board of supervisors, the appointee to hold the office until the 
next general election, and a majority of which trustees shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. At the first 
meeting held in each year, the board shall appoint a secretary 
and treasurer from their own number, who shall perform the 
usual duties devolving upon like officers. The treasurer, in addi- 
tion to his bond as trustee, shall give one as treasurer, in such 
sum and with such sureties as may be fixed by the board, and 
receive all moneys from all sources belonging to the funds of the 
school, and pay them out as directed by the board of trustees, 
upon orders drawn by the president and countersigned by the 
secretary; both of which officers shall keep an accurate account 
of all moneys received and paid out, and at the close of each year, 
and whenever required by the board, shall make a full itemized 
and detailed report. [31 G. A., ch. 135; C. 73, §§ 1699, 1700, 
1704, 1711.] 

Sec. 2730. Site — ^tax — approval of electors. As soon as con- 
venient after the organization of the board, it shall proceed to 
select the best site that can be obtained without expense to the 
county, at the place named in the petition upon which the vote 
was taken, for the erection of the necessary school buildings, the 
title to be taken in the name of the county, and shall procure 
plans and specifications for the erection of such buildings, and 
make all necessary contracts for the erection of the same, the 
cost of which, when completed, shall not exceed the amount of 
the tax so levied therefor. They shall also annually make and 
certify to the board of supervisors on or before the first Mon- 
day of September of each year, an estimate of the amount of 
funds needed for improvements, teachers' wages and contingent 
expenses for the ensuing year, designating the amount for each, 
which, in the aggregate shall not exceed in any one year, one mill 
on the dollar, upon the taxable property of the county. No ex- 
penditures for buildings or other improvements shall be made, or 
contract entered into therefor, by said board, involving an out- 
lay of to exceed five hundred dollars in any one year, without the 
same first being submitted to the electors of the county in which 
said school be located, for their approval ; the tax to be levied and 
collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and paid 
over by the county treasurer in the same manner as school funds 
are paid to district treasurers. [36 G. A., ch. 234, § 1 ; 27 G. 
A., ch. 84, § 2 ; C. 73, §§ 1702-3, 1705.] 

Sec. 2731. Management. Said board shall make no purchases, 
nor enter into any contracts in any year, in excess of the funds 
on hand and to be raised by the levy of that year. It shall em- 
ploy, when suitable buildings have been furnished, a competent 
principal teacher to take charge of the school, and such assistant 
teachers as may be necessary, and fix the salaries to be paid them, 
and in the conduct of the school may employ advanced students 
to assist in the work. Annual reports shall be made by the sec- 



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retary to the board of supervisors, which report shall give the 
number of students, with the sex of each, who have been in at- 
tendance during the year, the branches taught, the text-books 
used, number of teachers employed, salary paid to each, amount 
expended for library, apparatus, buildings, and all other expenses, 
the amount of funds on hand, debts contracted, and such other 
information as may be deemed important, and this report shall 
be printed in at least one newspaper in the county, if any is pub- 
lished therein, and a copy forwarded to the superintendent of 
public instruction. And for their services the trustees shall each 
receive the sum of two dollars per day for the time actually em- 
ployed in the discharge of official duties, claims for services to 
be presented, audited, and paid out of the county treasury, in the 
same manner as other accounts against the county. [27 G. A., 
ch. 84, § 3; C. 73, §§ 1705-6. 1710, 1712.] 

Sec. 2732. Regulations. The principal of any such high 
school, with the approval of the board of trustees, shall make 
such rules and regulations as is deemed proper in regard to the 
studies, conduct and government of the pupils, and such rules 
and regulations shall prohibit the use of tobacco in any form by 
any student of such school; and any pupil who will not conform 
to and obey such rules may be suspended or expelled therefrom 
by the board of trustees. Said board of trustees shall make all 
necessary rules and regulations in regard to the age and grade 
of attainments necessary to entitle pupils to admission into the 
school, and shall on or before the tenth day of July of each year 
make an apportionment between the different school corpora- 
tions of the county, of the pupils that shall attend said school, 
and shall apportion to each of said school corporations its propor- 
tionate number, based upon the number of pupils that can be 
reasonably accommodated in said school, and the number of 
pupils of school age, actual residents of such school corporations, 
as shown by the county superintendent's report last filed with the 
county auditor of said county ; said apportionment shall be pub- 
lished in the official papers of such county, to be paid for as other 
county printing; pupils from said school corporations to the num- 
ber so designated in such apportionment shall be entitled to ad- 
mission into said school, tuition free, and none others, and it 
shall be unlawful to accredit pupils so attending to any other 
school corporation than the one in which they are enumerated 
for school purposes. Should there be more applicants for such 
admission from any school corporation than its proportionate 
number, so determined, then the board of directors of such school 
corporation shall designate which of said applicants shall be en- 
titled to so attend. If the school shall be capable of accommo- 
dating more pupils than those attending under such apportion- 
ment, others may be admitted by the board of trustees, prefer- 
ence at all times being given to pupils desiring such admission, 
who are residents of the county. The board of trustees shall fix 
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of the county the school corporation from which they attend 
shall pay their tuition out of its contingent fund. The principal 
of such high school shall report to the said board of trustees un- 
der oath, at the close of each term, the names and number of 
pupils attending such school during said term, from what school 
corporation they attended, and the amount of tuition, if any, paid 
by each, the same to be included in the annual report of the sec- 
retary of the board of trustees to the board of supervisors, pro- 
vided for in section twenty-seven hundred thirty-one of the code, 
the tuition so paid to be turned over to the treasurer of the board 
of trustees to be used in paying the expense of said school under 
the direction of said board. [35 G. A., ch. 241, § 1 ; 27 G. A., 
ch. 84, § 4;C. 73, § 1709.] 

Sec. 2733-a. Petitions to abolish — election. Whenever citizens 
of any county having a county high school desire to abolish the 
same or to dispose of any part of the buildings or property 
thereof, they may petition the board of supervisors at any regu- 
lar session thereof in relation thereto, and sections three hundred 
ninety-seven, three hundred ninety-eight, three hundred ninety- 
nine and four hundred of the code shall apply to and govern the 
whole matter, including the manner of presenting and determin- 
ing the sufficiency of such petitions and remonstrances thereto, 
so far as applicable. If an election is ordered the same shall be 
held at the time of the general election or at a special election 
called for that purpose and the proposition shall be submitted and 
the election conducted in the manner provided in title six of the 
code. If any proposition as herein provided be legally submitted 
and adopted, the board of supervisors is hereby empowered to 
carry the same into effect. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 5.] 

Sec. 1072. County ofHcers — election of county superintendent 
of schools by convention. That section ten hundred seventy-two 
of the code be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following 
enacted in lieu thereof. 

There shall be elected in each county, at the general election 
in nineteen hundred and six, and in each even-numbered year, 
thereafter an auditor, a treasurer, a clerk of the district court, 
a sheriff, a recorder of deeds, a county attorney, and a coroner, 
who shall hold office for the term of two years or until their 
successors are elected and qualified. On the first Tuesday in 
April in the year nineteen hundred fifteen, and each third year 
thereafter, and whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of county 
superintendent of schools, a convention shall be held at the 
county seat for the purpose of electing a county superintendent 
of schools, at which convention each school township, city, town 
or village independent district and each independent consolidated 
district in the county shall be entitled to one vote. Each such 
school corporation shall be represented at the convention by the 
president of the school board, or in his absence or inability to 



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act, by some member of such school board, to be selected by the 
board. It is further provided, however, that where a congres- 
sional township is composed in whole or in part of rural inde- 
pendent districts that such rural independent districts shall be 
entitled to one vote in the convention, which vote shall be cast 
by such person as may be selected by the presidents of the com- 
ponent rural independent districts within such township at a 
meeting- to be held at such time and place as the county auditor 
shall fix in the written notice hereinafter provided for. All repre- 
sentatives to such convention shall serve until a county superin- 
tendent is elected and qualified. Such conventions shall be called 
by the county auditor by mailing a written notice to the presi- 
dent and secretary of each school corporation at least ten days 
prior to the date of such convention and by the publication of 
such notice in the official newspapers published in the county. 
The county auditor shall be the secretary of such convention and 
shall call same to order and submit a list of the school corpora- 
tions entitled to participate in such conventions. Said conven- 
tion shall organize by the selection of a chairman and when so 
organized, shall elect a county superintendent of schools, who 
shall possess the qualifications required by law and shall hold 
the office for the term of three years and until his successor is 
elected and qualified. Such convention may by a majority vote 
select a committee consisting of five members whose duty shall 
be to investigate the various candidates for the office of county 
superintendent and report to said convention at a subsequent 
dav to which the convention may adjourn ; or by a three-fourths 
vote of such convention, said committee may be authorized to 
elect a county superintendent and file its electioa with the county 
auditor, and said person shall be deemed duly elected to such 
office. There shall also be held one of such conventions on the 
first Monday of April, 1919, at which there shall be elected six 
persons outside the membership of such convention, who with the 
county superintendent, ex officio, shall constitute the county 
board of education. Such persons shall be reputable citizens of 
the county, of good educational qualifications and whose term of 
office shall begin the first day of May, 1919, and continue until 
their successors are selected and qualified. Three of whom shall 
be elected for the term of two years and three for the term of 
five years, and thereafter beginning with the regular convention 
in 1921, three members shall be elected every three years for 
the term of six years, and until their successors are selected and 
qualified. All persons elected or appointed on said board shall 
qualify on or before ten days following their election or appoint- 
ment, and at the time of their election or appointment must be 
citizens of the United States, over twenty-one years of age, and 
residents of the state for a period of six months, and the county 
sixty days, prior to their election or appointment, and the mem- 
bers of said board may be of either sex, and not more than one 
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the same school corporation. Vacancies in said board to be filled 
by the board until the next regular convention, when such con- 
vention shall fill all vacancies, provided, however, if the members 
of said board be reduced below a quorum a convention shall be 
called as provided by law, to fill vacancies. A majority of said 
board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
The members of said board shall take an oath of office as pro- 
vided by law for all county officers. The members of said board, 
except the county superintendent, shall serve without pay, but 
shall be allowed their actual necessary expenses in performing 
their duties not to exceed forty dollars each, annually, to be 
audited by the board of supervisors and paid out of the general 
fund. Meetings of said board shall be held on the second Mon- 
day of August and February in each year at the ofifice of the 
county superintendent, and other meetings on call of the county 
superintendent, or on written request of any three members filed 
with the county superintendent. Said board shall perform all 
duties prescribed by law for the county board of education, and 
upon all matters referred to them by him shall act as an advisory 
board to the county superintendent, and shall co-operate with 
him in formulating plans and regulations for the advancement 
and welfare of the schools under his supervision. A majority 
of representatives herein provided shall constitute a quorum, 
such representatives to receive ten cents per mile one way for 
the distance necessarily traveled in attending such convention, 
to be paid from the county treasury. [38 G. A., ch. 302; 35 G. 
A., ch. 107, § 1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 24, § 1 ; 31 G. A., ch. 39; 23 G. A., 
ch. 37, § 2; 21 G. A., ch. 73, § 1 ; C. 73, § 589; R., §§ 224, 472-3; 
C. '51, § 96.] 

In effect by publication March 18, 1919, 

Sec. 1304. Exemptions. The following classes of property 
are not to be taxed : 

1. The property of the United States and this state, including 
university, agricultural college and school lands ; the property 
of a county, township, city, town or school district or militia com- 
pany, when devoted entirely to public use and not held for pe- 
cuniary profit; municipal, school, and drainage bonds or certifi- 
cates hereafter issued by any municipality, school district, drain- 
age district or county within the state of Iowa ; public grounds 
including all places for the burial of the dead, crematoriums, the 
land on which they are built and appurtenant therpto not exceed- 
ing one acre, so long as no dividends or profits are derived there- 
from ; fire engines and all implements for extinguishing fires, with 
the grounds used exclusively for their buildings and meetings of 
the fire companies ; no deduction from the assessment of the 
stock of any bank or trust company shall be permitted because 
of such bank or trust company holding such bonds and certifi- 
cates as may be exempted above; 



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2. All grounds and buildings used for public libraries, includ- 
ing libraries owned and kept up by private individuals, associa- 
tions or corporations for public use and not for private profit, for 
cemetery associations and societies, and for literary, scientific, 
charitable, benevolent, agricultural and religious institutions, and 
societies devoted solely to the appropriate objects of these insti- 
tutions, not exceeding one hundred sixty acres in extent, and not 
leased or otherwise used with a view of pecuniary profit, but all 
deeds or leases by which such property is held shall be filed for 
record before the property above described shall be omitted 
from the assessment ; the books, papers and apparatus belonging 
to the above institutions, used solely for the purposes above con- 
templated, and the like property of students in any such institu- 
tion used for their education; moneys and credits belonging ex- 
clusively to such institutions, and devoted solely to sustaining 
them, but not exceeding in amount or income the amount pre- 
scribed by their charters or articles of incorporation; real estate 
to the extent of not to exceed one hundred sixty acres in an}'- 
civil township, owned by any educational institution of this state 
as a part of its endowment fund, shall not be taxed. [36 G. A., 
ch. 97, § 1; 36 G. A., ch. 237, § 1 ; 35 G. A., ch. 117, § 1; 
35 G. A., ch. 116, § 1 ; 35 G. A., ch. 115, § 1 ; 34 G. A., ch. 61, § 1 ; 
34 G. A., ch. 62, § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 81, §§ 1 & 2; 32 G. A., ch. 54; 
31 G. A., ch. 48; 29 G. A., ch. 56, § 1 ; 26 G. A., ch. 29; 21 G. A., 
ch. 97; C. 73, § 797; R., § 711; C. '51, § 455.] 

Sec. 2468-k. Fire drills in public schools — exits unlocked bul- 
letin — teachers — penalty. It shall be the duty of the state fire 
marshal and his deputies to require teachers of public and 
private schools, in all buildings of more than one story, to have 
at least one fire drill each month, and to require all teachers of 
such schools, whether occupying buildings of one or more stories, 
to keep all doors and exits of their respective rooms and buildings 
unlocked during school hours. The state fire marshal shall pre- 
pare'a bulletin upon the causes and dangers of fires, arranged in 
not less than four divisions or chapters, and under the direction 
of the executive council shall publish and deliver the same to 
the public schools throughout the state, and the teachers thereof 
shall be required to instruct their pupils in at least one lesson 
each quarter of the school year with reference to the causes and 
dangers of fires. Any teacher failing to comply with the provi- 
sions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall 
be punishable by a fine of not to exceed ten dollars for each of- 
fense. [34 G. A., ch. 128, § 11.] 

Sec. 4999-a6. Protection against fire — means of escape. The 

owners, proprietors and lessees of all buildings, structures or en- 
closures of three or more stories in height, now constructed or 
hereafter to be erected, shall provide for and equip said build- 
ings and structures with such protection against fire and means 



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of escape from such building's as shall hereafter be set forth in 
this bill. [30 G. A., ch. 136, § 1 ; 29 G. A., ch. 150, § 1.] 

A two-story school building with a basement five feet above ground will 
be regarded as a three-story building. 

Sec. 4999-a7. Buildings and enclosures — how classified. The 

buildings, structures and enclosures contemplated in this act 
shall be classified as follows : 

First. Hotels, office buildings or lodging rooms, including 
boarding houses in which sleeping rooms are kept for rent or 
hire, of three or more stories in height. 

Second. Tenements or boarding houses, of three or more 
stories in height, occupied by one or more families or aggregating 
twenty persons or more ; provided that a mansard roof or attic, 
when used for sleeping rooms, shall be counted as one story. 

Third. Buildings used as opera houses, theaters or public 
halls, of a seating capacity exceeding three hundred. 

Fourth. Seminaries and colleges, public school buildings, hos- 
pitals and asylums, of three or more stories in height. 

Fifth. Manufactories,- warehouses and buildings of all char- 
acter of three or more stories in height, not specified in the fore- 
going sections. 

Sixth. Hotels and other buildings which are of strictly fire- 
proof construction. [35 G. A., ch. 305, § 1 ; 30 G. A., ch. 136, 
§2;29G. A., ch. 150, §2.] 

Sec. 4999-a9. Class of escapes to be supplied — certain classes 
forbidden — discretionary power of commissioner — stairways. 

Hotels, lodging houses, tenements, apartment buildings, schools, 
retail or department stores, seminaries, and college buildings, of- 
fice buildings, hospitals, asylums, opera houses, theatres, assem- 
bly halls and factories required to be equipped by law shall be 
equipped with escapes of class "A" or class "B". All other build- 
ings and structures required to be equipped with fire escapes shall 
be equipped with some one or more of said classes of fire escapes. 
[36 G. A., ch. 302, § 4; 33 G. A., ch. 220, § 1 ; 30 G. A., ch. 136, 
§4.] 

TEACHING .OF CITIZENSHIP. 

AN ACT requiring the teaching of American citizenship in the public 
and private schools located in the state of Iowa and providing for an 
outline of such subjects. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. All public and private schools located within the 
state of Iowa shall be required to teach the subject of Ameri- 
can citizenship. 



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Sec. 2. The superintendent of public instruction shall prepare 
and distribute to all elementary schools an outline of American 
citizenship for all grades from one to eight inclusive. 

Sec. 3. Public and private high schools, academies, and other 
institutions ranking as secondary schools which maintain three 
year courses of instruction shall offer a minimum of instruction 
in American history and civics of the state and nation to the ex- 
tent of two semesters, and schools of this class which have four 
year courses shall offer in addition one semester in social prob- 
lems and economics. 

Sec. 4. The superintendent of public instruction shall dis- 
tribute to all high schools, academies, and institutions ranking as 
secondary schools, an outline of a course of study in American 
history, civics of the state and nation, social problems and eco- 
nomics prepared under his direction. [38 G. A., ch. 406.] 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SCHOOLS. 

AN ACT requiring the use of the English language as the medium of In- 
struction in all secular subjects in all schools within the state of Iowa. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. That the medium of instruction in all secular sub- 
jects taught in all of the schools, public and private, within the 
state of Iowa, shall be the English language, and the use of any 
language other than English in secular subjects in said schools 
is hereby prohibited, provided, however, that nothing herein shall 
prohibit the teaching and studying of foreign languages as such 
as a part of the regular school course in any such school, in all 
courses above the eighth grade. 

Sec. 2. That any person violating any of the provisions of this 
act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
tion shall be fined not less than twentv-five dollars ($25.00) nor 
more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). [38 G. A., ch. 198.] 

STANDARD RURAL SCHOOLS. 

AN ACT providing for the standardization of rural schools and granting 
state aid and providing for an appropriation therefor. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lozva: 

Section 1. A'ny school maintained by a district wholly out- 
side a city, town, or village corporation or consolidated indepen- 
dent district which has complied with the provisions of this act 
shall be known as a standard school. Every standard school be- 
fore it may be designated as such shall have been maintained for 
eight months during the previous year and shall conduct school 
for eight months of each succeeding year. It shall have a suit- 
able school house, grounds, and outbuildings in proper condition 
and repair ; be equipped with needful apparatus, text-books, sup- 



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plies ; and adequate system of heating and ventilation ; have done 
efficient work and have complied with such requirements as 
shall be specified by the superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public in- 
struction to prescribe and promulgate the requirements he shall 
deem necessary for standard schools as to minimum require- 
ments for standards of teaching, general equipment, heating and 
ventilation, lighting, seating, water supply, library, care of 
grounds, safety against fire, and such other requirements as will 
conserve the health, safety and welfare of the children attending 
school ; and prescribe such other requirements as he shall deem 
necessary for the upbuilding and improvement of such schools. 

Sec. 3. On or before June 30th of each year and at such other 
time as the superintendent of public instruction may direct the 
county superintendent of schools shall make reports and furnish 
such other data in regard to said schools as the department of 
public instruction may desire on blanks to be furnished by the 
superintendent of public instruction. 

Sec. 4. State aid shall be given to rural districts maintaining 
one or more standard schools to the amount of six dollars ($6.00), 
for each pupil who has attended said schools in said district at 
least six months of the previous year. 

Sec. 5. No school shall be deemed a standard school unless 
the teacher is the holder of a first grade uniform county certifi- 
cate or its equivalent, has contracted for the entire school year, 
and unless such school shall have maintained an average daily 
attendance of at least ten pupils. 

Sec. 6. Each standard school shall be furnished by the super- 
intendent of public instruction with a suitable door plate or mark 
of identification and the expense of the same shall be paid from 
the fund created by this act for the promotion of standard schools. 

Sec. 7. Upon receiving from the county superintendent a 
satisfactory report showing that any rural school has fulfilled 
the requirements of a standard school, the superintendent of pub- 
lic instruction shall issue a requisition upon the auditor of state 
for the amount due any rural school district entitled to state aid 
for the school year just past; whereupon the auditor of state 
shall draw a warrant on the treasurer of state payable to the sec- 
retary of the school corporation entitled thereto and forward 
to the secretary of said school corporation who shall cause the 
same to be deposited with the other funds of the district. The 
money shall be expended in the district or districts maintaining 
standard schools in amounts proportionate to the number of pu- 
pils upon which state aid was granted. The secretary shall issue 
a warrant in favor of the teacher to the amount of one-half the 
subsidy due each such school and the school board shall, with 



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the assistance of the county superintendent, expend the remain- 
der in improvements and necessary apparatus. If more than one 
teacher is employed in a school the amount shall be apportioned 
between them according to the time of their employment. 

Sec. 8. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this 
act there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred 
thousand dollars ($100,000.00) annually, which fund if not all 
used shall be allowed to accumulate, and shall not be turned back 
into the state treasury nor used for any purpose other than herein 
provided. [38 G. A., ch. 364.] 

MINING CAMP SCHOOLS. 

* 

AN ACT to provide for an appropriation of $50,000.00 for relieving the sit- 
uation in coal mining camps as to school facilities. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state treas- 
ury out of funds not otherwise appropriated the sum of fifty thou- 
sand dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary 
to be used by the state superintendent of public instruction and 
under his direction during the next biennium for the purpose of 
relieving the conditions existing in the mining camps in the state 
of Iowa, so far as school facilities are concerned. [38 G. A., ch. 
373.] 

DENTAL CLINICS FOR CHILDREN. 

AN ACT providing for the establishment of dental clinics for school chil- 
dren and the offering of certain courses of instruction in certain schools 
and the employment of dentists and dental hygienists by public school 
corporations. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. Boards of school directors in all school districts 
containing one thousand or more inhabitants are hereby author- 
ized to establish and maintain in connection with the schools of 
such districts, a dental clinic for children attending such schools, 
and to offer courses of instruction on mouth hygiene. Said 
boards are hereby empowered to employ such legally qualified 
dentists and dental hygienists as may be necessary to accomplish 
the purpose of this act, and pay the expense of the same out of 
the general fund. [38 G. A., ch. 91.] 

EMPLOYMENT OF NURSES. 

AN ACT giving boards of supervisors, city and town councils, and school 
boards the authority and power to employ visiting or public health 
nurses and to pay the salary and expenses thereof. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. That the boards of supervisors, the city and town 
councils, and the school boards in this state shall have the power 



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and authority to employ visiting or public health nurses at such 
periods each year and in such numbers as they may deem advis- 
able and to pay the salaries and expenses thereof from the funds 
in the treasuries of said boards and councils. 

Sec. 2. That the said boards of supervisors, the city and town 
councils and the school boards in any county in the state may co- 
operate in the employment of said visiting or public health nurses 
and may apportion the salaries and expenses thereof to the vari- 
ous territories represented by them. 

Sec. 3. That the said boards of supervisors, the city and town 
councils, and the school boards shall at the time of employment 
of visiting or public health nurses prescribe the duties thereof 
which shall in a general way be for the promotion and conserva- 
tion of the public health. 

Sec. 4. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall 
take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publica- 
tion in the Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Capital, 
newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. [38 G. 
A., ch. 290.] 

USE OP SCHOOL PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES. 

Section 1. Use of school houses and grounds for public pur- 
poses. The board of directors of any school corporation may 
authorize the use of any school house and its grounds within 
such corporation and not within the limits of a city or town for 
the purpose of meetings of granges, lodges, agricultural societies 
and similar rural secret orders and societies and for election pur- 
poses ; such use to be for such compensation and upon such terms 
and conditions as may be fixed by said board for the proper pro- 
tection of the school house and the property belonging therein, 
including that of pupils. Any compensation for such use shall 
be paid into the contingent fund and be expended in the upkeep 
and repair of such school property, and in purchasing supplies 
therefor. Provided, however, that if at any time the voters of 
such corporation at any annual meeting forbid such use of any 
such school house or grounds, the board shall not thereafter per- 
mit such use until the action of such voters shall have been 
rescinded by the voters at an annual meeting called for that pur- 
pose. [37 G. A., ch. 229.] 

MARGINAL RELEASE OP SCHOOL FUND MORTGAGES. 

Section 1. That the release or satisfaction of any school fund 
mortgage entered on the margin of the record of such mortgage 
by the auditor of the county prior to July 4, 1894, be and the same 
is hereby legalized and given the same force and effect as though 



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such auditor had had at the time of entering such release or sat- 
isfaction the same power thereafter conferred upon him by chap- 
ter fifty-three (53) of the acts of the twenty-fifth general assem- 
bly. [37 G. A., ch. 339.] 

TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND. 

Section 1. Any independent school district having a popula- 
tion of seventy-five thousand (75,000) or more may establish a 
pension and annuity retirement system for the public school 
teachers of such district. 

Sec. 2. The fund for such retirement system shall be created 
by an annual tax not exceeding two-tenths (2-10) of a mill on the 
dollar, by an assessment of the teachers not exceeding one per 
cent of their salaries in any one year, and by the interest on any 
permanent fund which may be created by gift, bequest or other- 
wise. 

Sec. 3. The board of directors of the independent school dis- 
trict shall constitute the board of trustees and shall formulate 
the plan of the retirement; and shall make necessary rules and 
regulations for the operation of said retirement system. [37 G. 
A., ch. 387.] 

PUBLIC SCHOOL CORPORATIONS MAY MAINTAIN SCHOOLS FOR 
BLIND AND DEAF. 

Section 1. Any school corporation having residing therein five 
or more blind children of school age shall have authority to pro- 
vide one or more instructors to provide instruction for such blind 
pupils substantially equivalent to the work required in the first 
eight grades of the graded schools. Such course of instruction 
and instructors to be approved by the superintendent of public in- 
struction. 

Sec. 2. Any school corporation having residing therein five or 
more deaf children of school age shall have authority to provide 
one or more instructors to provide instructions for such deaf pu- 
pils substantially equivalent to the work required in the first 
eight grades o! the graded schools. Such course of instruction 
and instructors to be approved by the superintendent of public 
instruction. 

Sec. 3. State aid, in the sum of one hundred dollars per year 
for each such blind or deaf pupil receiving instruction in any 
such school corporation, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys 
in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be 
paid to the treasurer of the school corporation at the end of each 
school year; provided, however, that to be entitled to such state 
aid such instruction shall be given for a period of at least ten 
school months each year. 



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Sec. 4. To be entitled to such state aid the courses and meth- 
ods of instruction must comply with such requirements as may 
be outlined by the superintendent of public instruction and shall 
include every modern method of instruction known to the pro- 
fessions. [37 G. A., ch. 308.] 

PUBLIC EVENING SCHOOLS. 

Section 1. The school board of any organized school district 
within the state is hereby authorized and empowered under the 
control and supervision of the city or county superintendent to 
establish and maintain public evening schools as a branch of the 
public schools when said school board shall deem advisable for 
the public convenience and welfare, and said evening schools 
shall be available to all persons over sixteen (16) years of age, 
who from any cause are unable to attend the public day schools 
of such district. 

Sec. 2. Whenever in any organized school district within the 
state there shall be residing ten or more persons over sixteen (16) 
years of age who desire instruction at an evening school in the 
common branches, it shall be the duty of the school board of 
such organized school district to establish and maintain an eve- 
ning school for such instruction throughout a period of not less 
than three months of every school year and for not less than two 
hours at least two times each week during the term of such eve- 
ning schools, which school shall be under the control and super- 
vision of the city or county superintendent. [37 G. A., ch. 97.] 

TRAINING IN TEACHING SERVICE. 

AN ACT to provide training in teaching service for the Iowa State 
Teachers College, State University of Iowa and College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts and to furnish instruction to pupils in school dis- 
tricts under contract between the board of directors and the state board 
of education. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. The board of directors of any school district in the 
state of Iowa may enter into contract with the state board of edu- 
cation for furnishing instruction to pupils of such 'school district, 
and for training teachers for the schools of the state, in such par- 
ticular lines of demonstration and instruction as are deemed nec- 
essary for the Iowa State Teachers College, State University of 
Iowa and College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as training 
schools for teachers. 

Sec. 2. The contract for such instruction shall authorize the 
payment for such service furnished the school district or for such 
service furnished the state, the amount to be agreed upon by 
the officers of the state and of the school district thus co-operat- 
ing. 



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Sec. 3. Such contracts shall be in writing and shall extend 
over a period of not to exceed two years and a copy thereof shall 
be filed in the office of the superintendent of schools of the 
county. 

Sec. 4. . This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall 
go into effect when published in the Des Moines Register and 
the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published at Des Moines, 
Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 187.] 

EDUCATION OF BLIND AND DEAF. 

AN ACT to repeal sections twenty-seven hundred eighteen-c (2718-c), 
twenty-seven hundred eighteen-d (2718-d), twenty-seven hundred eight- 
een-e (2718-e) and twenty-seven hundred eighteen-f (2718-f), supplement 
to the code, 1913, and to enact substitutes therefor and relating to the 
required attendance of deaf children and blind children at the respective 
state schools, and for excuse therefrom, and providing a penalty for 
failing to comply with the provisions of this act, and appropriating 
funds for carrying out provisions of this act, including the compensa- 
tion of agent to enforce provisions of this act. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lozva: 

Section 1. Children, residents of the state, between the ages 
of seven and nineteen years, who are so deaf as to be unable to 
obtain an education in the common schools must be sent either 
by his parents or guafdian to attend the Iowa School for the 
Deaf, unless exempted as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 2. Any person having such a child under his control and 
who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this act and 
any person who induces or attempts to induce any deaf child 
to absent himself or herself from school or employs or harbors 
any such child while such school is in session shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned in the county 
jail not more than thirty days or be fined not to exceed one hun- 
dred dollars. 

Sec. 3. The superintendent of the Iowa School for the Deaf, 
with the approval of the state board of education in the individual 
case, may excuse attendance when satisfied: 

a. That the child is in such bodily or mental condition as to 
prevent or render futile his or her attendance at school. 

b. That the child is so diseased or possesses such habits as 
to render his or her presence a menace to the health or morals 
of other pupils. 

c. That the child is a regular attendant at a day school for 
the deaf maintained under the provisions of chapter three hun- 
dred eight (308) of the acts of the thirty-seventh general assem- 
bly, or is efficiently taught for the scholastic year in a private or 
other school devoted to instruction of the deaf, or by private 
tutor, the branches taught in the public schools. 



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Sec. 4. That the state board of education be and is hereby 
authorized to employ an agent to aid in the enforcement of the 
provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of such agent under 
the direction of the state board of education to seek out chil- 
dren who should be in attendance, and see to it that they are 
properly enrolled and installed as students in such school unless 
exempted as heretofore provided, and to file information against 
and to appear in proceedings against any person or persons who 
may interfere or attempt to interfere with the carrying out of the 
provisions of this act. Such agent shall be allowed compensa- 
tion at a rate fixed by the state board of education and also neces- 
sary actual traveling and hotel expenses while away from home 
in the performance of such duty. 

Sec. 5. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this 
act there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state 
-treasury, not otherwise appropriated, such sum as may be neces- 
sary, and such appropriation shall be available for the school year 
1919-1920 and annually thereafter, and warrants against the same 
shall be drawn by the auditor of state upon certification by the 
state board of education, when passed by the state board of audit. 

Sec. 6. That sections twenty-seven hundred eighteen-c 
(2718-c), twenty-seven hundred eighteen-d (2718-d), twenty- 
seven hundred eighteen-e (2718-e), and twenty-seven hundred 
eighteen-f (2718-f), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same 
is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 7. The provisions of this act shall apply likewise to blind 
children of the state of like ages with regard to attendance at the 
college for the blind, and the agent appointed by the state 'board 
of education under section four (4) of this act shall perform the 
same duties with regard to blind children as those imposed 
herein with regard to deaf children. [38 G. A., ch. 120.] 

FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL PARKS. 

AN ACT to empower school boards, under stated conditions, to purchase or 
lease for stated educational purposes comprised under the term, Park 
Life tracts of land and to improve the same for purpose of estab- 
lishing thereon summer homes or school for children who desire to 
continue their studies in useful pursuits throughout the year, a.nd to 
define the purposes, functions and objects of such schools. 

Be It Enacted by the General Asseinhly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. Acquisition by school boards of grounds for school 
garden or farm, etc. The school board in cities including cities 
under special charters and commission form, having a population 
of twenty thousand or more, is hereby empowered to purchase 
or lease for educational purposes a tract of land outside of the 
boundaries of such city, for a school garden or school farm in like 
manner and under the same restrictions as in the case of school 
property in the said city and to erect suitable buildings thereon. 



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and to furnish the same, and to appoint managers in a suitable 
manner. The said tract of land to be maintained for the pur- 
pose of providing a summer home for pupils of the city who may 
desire to continue their study all the year round, and for supply- 
ing to them an opportunity to perform productive work in such 
vocational lines as agronomy, olericulture, viticulture, apiculture, 
pomology, agriculture, and the auxiliary arts, carpentry, ma- 
sonry, and any other wholesome and voluntary employment, and 
to diversify such work with open air exercises and recreations of 
both physical and intellectual character; also for enabling the 
pupils of the elementary schools and of the high school oppor- 
tunities for visitation and observational study at all seasons in 
connection with their school work; it being the intent and pur- 
pose of this statute to develop in the state of Iowa the educa- 
tional principle and work commonly comprised in the name 
"park life", as exemplified experimentally and discussed educa- 
tionally and sociologically in this state. 

Where such' school garden or school farm is maintained, the 
said school board shall seek to correlate its functions with the 
regular work of the schools in the most practical and efficient 
manner. 

ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL TRAINING. 

AN ACT to encourage- boards to provide the school children of their re- 
spective districts with agricultural training work and recreation in the 
manner contemplated by chapter 14-e, title XIII, supplemental supple- 
ment to the code, 1915, providing state aid to all such school districts, 
fixing the terms and conditions under which such state aid shall be 
granted, and appropriating the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) 
to carry out the purpose of this act. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of loiva: 

Section 1. That whenever a school board, acting under and in 
accordance with the provisions of chapter 14-E, title XIII, sup- 
plemental supplement to the code, 1915, shall provide agricul- 
tural training, work and recreation of a practical character upon 
siiitable grounds easily accessible to the school children of that 
district for at least three consecutive years for not less than six 
or more than ten weeks' duration during each year, and with a 
bona fide enrollment of at least fifty (50) pupils during each year 
of said period and shall make an exhibit showing a successful ex- 
perience in carrying out such enterprises or activities over a 
period of at least two years (2), the school district providing 
such training shall be paid annually, commencing with the third 
year (3), out of the state school fund, not otherwise appropri- 
ated, a sum equal to two dollars ($2.00) per capita per week for 
each pupil who pursues such wholesome and voluntary activities 
during at least two-thirds of the period during which such op- 
portunity is provided. 



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Sec. 2. That whenever a school board, acting under and in 
accordance with the provisions of chapter 14-E, title XIII, sup- 
plemental supplement to the code, 1915, shall provide the neces- 
sary grounds, equipment and instruction for the training of teach- 
ers and young people in nature study and experimentation in 
forestry, gardening, fish culture and the fostering of fruit life 
and animal life, correlating the same with regular school work 
of the district, the school district providing such training shall be 
paid annually out of the state school fund, not otherwise appro- 
priated, an amount equal to one-half the sum annually appropri- 
ated by said school board and actually expended by it in carrying 
out the purpose contemplated by this act. 

Sec. 3. That the school board of any district carrying out any 
of the provisions of chapter 14-E, title XIII, supplemental sup- 
plement to the code, 1915, may, at its option, in carrying out of 
any such enterprise use its apparatus, school furnishing or other 
necessary equipment. 

Sec. 4. The secretary of any school board acting under the 
provisions of said chapter 14-E, title XIII, supplemental supple- 
ment to the code, 1915, shall, if such district is entitled to state 
funds under the provision of this act, prepare a voucher for the 
amount due his school district by the state of Iowa, which 
voucher shall be fully itemized, verified by the secretary of said 
school board and have attached thereto the certificate of the 
superintendent of said school board certifying to what such 
school district has actually done during the preceding year in 
carrying out the purpose of the said chapter 14-E, title XIII, 
supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, and when such 
voucher so prepared is presented to the auditor of the state, he 
is hereby authorized and directed to thereupon draw a state 
warrant, payable to said school district, for the amount called for 
in said voucher upon the school funds of the state ; and the treas- 
urer of state is hereby authorized and directed when presented 
with such warrant properly endorsed, to pay the amount of such 
warrant to the school district named as payee therein out of said 
state school fund not otherwise appropriated. 

Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 
state school fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two 
thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the purpo'se of carrying out the 
provisions of this act. [38 G. A., ch. 354.] 

JUVENILE COURT COMMITMENTS. 

AN ACT to amend section two hundred fifty-four-a20 (254-a20), supple- 
ment to the code, 1913, relating to commitments in juvenile courts. 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

Section 1. That section two hundred fifty-four-a20, supple- 
ment to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by 



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adding after the "period" following- the word "charge" in the last 
line of said section the words : "No child under the age of ten 
years shall be committed to the training school for boys or the 
training school for girls ; but such children shall be eligible to 
admission to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport, Iowa, 
under the laws and rules applying to the admission of other chil- 
dren to this institution" 

Sec. 2. This act being deemed of immedate importance, shall 
take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the 
Des Moines Register and Des Moines Capital, newspapers pub- 
lished in Des Moines, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 12.] 

LEGALIZING ACT AT BOUTON. 

AN ACT authorizing the Independent School District of Bouton, in Dallas 
county, Iowa, to issue its warrants in excess of the funds available and 
authorizing a tax levy to pay the same. 

Whereas, the board of school directors of the Independent 
School District of Bouton in Dallas county, Iowa, did in 1918 
estimate the amount required for the general fund of said district 
and certify the same to the board of supervisors of Dallas county, 
and 

Whereas, the amount required of said general fund and certi- 
fied as aforesaid was in excess of the amount which might be 
levied as provided by law and 

Whereas, the amount to be raised by the levy made by the 
board of supervisors is insufficient to keep the schools in said 
district in operation and enable the board of directors thereof to 
perform its contracts with teachers and other employees, and 

Whereas, the additional amount required is the sum of two 
thousand two hundred fifty dollars and fifty cents ($2250.50) ; 
now therefore 

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lozva: 

Section 1. That said Independent School District of Bouton 
is authorized to issue its warrants for the payment of the neces- 
sary expenses of the operation of the schools in said district, not 
exceeding in total amount the sum of two thousand two hundred 
fifty dollars and fifty cents ($2250.50) and that the board of direc- 
tors of said district shall certify to the board of supervisors of 
Dallas county at the same time and in the same manner that it 
next certifies the amount required for the general fund, the total 
amount required to pay the warrants issued or to be issued as 
hereinbefore provided: and that the said board of supervisors 
shall at the time of levying taxes as provided by law, levy upon 
the property within said school district and cause to be entered 
upon the tax list a tax sufficient to raise the amount so certified, 
which levy shall be in addition to the levy for the general fund 



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and shall not be considered in determining the amount authorized 
by law to be raised for the general fund. 

Sec. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate importance shall 
.take effect and be i'n force from and after its publication in The 
Des Moines Register, a newspaper published in Des Moines, 
Iowa, and the Bouton Press, a newspaper published in Bouton, 
Dallas county, Iowa. Publication expense to be borne by school 
corporation. [38 G. A., ch. 282.] 

STATE BOARD OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 

Section 1. That the following words and phrases as used in 
this act shall have the following meanings: 

1. "Approved school, department or class" shall mean a 
school, department or class approved by the state board for voca- 
tional education as entitled under the provisions of this act to 
federal moneys for the salaries of teachers of vocational subjects. 

2. "Approved teachers' training school, department or class" 

shall mean a school, department or class approved by the state 
board for vocational education as entitled under the provisions 
of this act to federal moneys for the training of teachers of voca- 
tional subjects. 

Sec. 2. That a state board to be known as the state board for 
vocational education is hereby created. Such state board for vo- 
cational education shall consist of three members as follows : 
The state superintendent of public instruction, who shall be chair- 
man, the president of the state board of education, and the. com- 
missioner of the bureau of labor statistics. 

Sec. 3. That such state board shall have the duty and be given 
all necessary power to provide for making studies and investiga- 
tions relating to prevocational and vocational training in agri- 
cultural, industrial, home economics and commercial subjects; to 
promote and aid in tke establishment of local communities of pub- 
lic schools, departments and classes giving instruction in such 
subjects; to co-operate with local communities in the mainte- 
nance of such schools, departments and classes ; to establish stand-^ 
ards for, test the qualifications of, and to certificate teachers of 
such subjects in such approved schools, departments and classes; 
and to co-operate in the maintenance of teachers' training schools, 
departments and classes supported and controlled by the public 
for the training of teachers and supervisors of such subjects 

Sec. 4. That such 6tate board shall appoint a committee to 
be known as the state advisory committee for vocational educa- 
tion, consisting of nine members ; three of these members to 
serve for one year, three for two years, and three for- three years, 
and all members thereafter for three years each. The member- 
ship of such- state advisory committee shall consist of one mem- 



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ber experienced in agriculture, one employer, one representative 
of labor, one woman experienced in woman's work, one person 
experienced in business and commerce, one person of experience 
in social work, and three educators. Such state advisory commit- 
tee shall meet in conference with sucH state board at least two 
times a year and at such other times as such state board shall 
deem advisable and shall have the duty and re'sponsibility of giv- 
ing advice and suggestions to such state board concerning pre- 
vocational and vocational education, the training of teachers of 
agriculture, industrial, household arts and commercial subjects, 
and the administration of this act. The members of such state 
advisory committee shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses 
incurred in attending such conference. 

Sec. 5. That, in order to meet the requirements, tha,t for each 
dollar of federal money expended for the salaries of teachers in 
approved schools, departments and classes, the state or local com- 
munity, or both, must expend an equal amount for the mainte- 
nance of such instruction, the state shall pay for the salaries of 
teachers of vocational subjects in such approved schools, depart- 
ments and classes, an amount equal to the amount of federal 
money which they receive for the same purpose for the same 
year. Such state board for vocational education shall recom- 
mend to each session of the general assembly the amount of 
money which should be appropriated by the general assenably 
for such approved schools, departments and classes for each suc- 
ceeding biennium ; whenever in any year the federal and state 
funds available shall not be sufficient to meet the requirem.ents 
of the schools, departments or classes thus formulated, the state 
board of vocational education shall as nearly as practicable pro- 
rate the moneys available for such purpose. 

Sec. 5-a. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 
this act, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the 
state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty thou- 
sand dollars for the year ending June 30, 1920, and the sum of 
fifty thousand dollars for the year ending June 30, 1921. 

Sec. 6. That such board shall establish standards and annu- 
ally inspect, as a basis of approval, all schools, departments and 
classes applying for federal moneys for instruction in agricul- 
ture, industrial, home economics and commercial subjects under 
the provisions of this act; and all teachers' training schools, de- 
partments and classes applying for federal moneys for the train- 
ing of teachers and supervisors of said subjects. Approved 
schools, departments and classes shall be entitled under the pro- 
visions of this act, to federal moneys, and approved teachers' 
training schools, departments and classes shall be entitled to 
such federal moneys, so long as they are approved by such board 
as to site, plant, equipment, number and qualification of teachers, 
employment of teachers, admission and number of pupils, courses 
of study, methods of instruction and expenditure of money. All 



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disbursements of federal moneys to such approved schools, de- 
partments, and classes and to such approved teachers' training 
schools, departments and classes shall be made by the state treas- 
urer on the requisition of such state board. 

Sec. 7. That the state superintendent of public instruction 
shall be the executive officer of such state board for the adminis- 
tration of this act. He shall, with the approval of such board, 
appoint such assistants as may be necessary to properly carry 
out the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 8. That the board of directors of any school district is 
hereby authorized to carry on prevocational and vocational in- 
struction in agricultural, industrial, home economics, and com- 
mercial subjects and to pay the expense of such instruction in 
the same way as the expenses^ for other subjects in the public 
schools are now paid. 

Sec. 9. That the board of directors of any school district (hav- 
ing a population of more than 5,000 persons) maintaining a 
school, department or class receiving- the benefit of federal mon- 
eys under the provisions of this act shall, as a condition of ap- 
proval by such state board as herein provided; appoint a local 
advisory committee for vocational education consisting of per- 
sons of experience in agriculture, industry, home economics or 
business to give advice and assistance to such board of directors 
in the establishment and maintenance of such schools, depart- 
ments and classes. Such state board may require the board of 
directors of any school district that maintains such an approved 
school, department or class to appoint such an advisory commit- 
tee. Such persons of experience shall serve on such advisory 
committee without compensation. 

Sec. 10. That such board is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditure for the/actual expenses of the board and of such state 
advisory committee for vocational education incurred in the dis- 
charge of their duties as herein provided, for the salaries of as- 
sistants, and for such office and other expenses as in the judg- 
ment of such board are necessary to the proper administration 
of this act, and there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in 
the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $9,000 
per annum for the actual expenses of said board of vocational 
education mentioned in this section. 

Sec. 11. That such board shall make to the general assembly 
at each biennial session thereof, a report on the administration of 
this act and on the expenditures of money under the provisions of 
this act. 

Sec. 12. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this 
act are hereby repealed. [38 G. A., ch. 337; Z7 G. A., ch. 290.] 



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EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION. 

Section 1. That section ten (10) of chapter two hundred 
ninety (290), of the acts of the thirty-seventh (37th) general as- 
sembly be amended by adding thereto the following: 

"There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the state 
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sur. of two thousand 
fifty dollars ($2,050) in addition to. any appiopriation heretofore 
made, for the actual expenses of said board for vocational educa- 
tion for the period from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1919." 

Sec. 2. This act being of immediate importance shall take 
efifect from and after its pubHcation in the Des Moines Register 
and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des 
Moines, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 81.] 

PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE, TRADES AND 

INDUSTRIES. 

Section 1. That the provisions of the act of congress, enacted 
by the sixty-fifth congress at the second session thereof, entitled 
an "act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to 
provide for co-operation with the states in the promotion of such 
education in agriculture and the trades and industries ; to provide 
for co-operation with the states in the preparation of teachers of 
vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its 
expenditure", and approved February 23, 1917, be and the same 
is hereby accepted. 

Sec. 2. That the benefits of all funds appropriated under the 
provisions of such act are hereby accepted as provided in such 
act. 

Sec. 3. That the state board for vocational education is hereby 
designated as the state board as provided in such act, is charged 
with the duty and responsibility of co-operating with the federal 
board for vocational education in the administration of such act; 
and is given all power necessary to such co-operation. 

Sec. 4. That such state board is hereby authorized to make 
such expenditures for the salaries of assistants and for such office 
and other expenses as such state board may deem necessary to 
the proper administration of the funds allotted to the state of 
Iowa under the ministration of the funds allotted to the state of 
Iowa under the provisions of such act. 

Sec. 5. That the state treasurer is appointed as custodian of 
funds for vocational education, as provided in such act; and is 
charged with the duty and responsibility of receiving and provid- 
ing for the proper custody and for the proper disbursements on 
vouchers drawn by such state board, of moneys paid to the state 
from the appropriations made under the provisions of such act. 



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Sec. 6. That the state treasurer as custodian of funds for vo- 
cational education shall make to the general assembly, at each 
biennial session thereof, a report of the receipts and disburse- 
ments of moneys received by him under the provisions of such 
act and such state board shall make to the general assembly at 
each biennial session -thereof a report of its administration of 
such act, and the expenditures of money allotted to the state 
under the provision, of such act. 

Sec. 7. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall 
be in effect on and after its publication in the Des Moines Regis- 
ter, and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des 
Moines, Iowa. [37 G. A., ch. 300.] 

PART-TIME SCHOOLS. 

Section 1. That the board of directors of any organized school 
district may establish" and maintain part-time schools, depart- 
ments, or classes in aid of vocational and other education for 
minors between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16) years 
(1) holding work certificates, or (2) who have not completed the 
eighth grade and are employed in a "store or mercantile estab- 
lishment," where eight (8) or a less number of persons are em- 
ployed, or in "establishments or occupations which are owned 
or operated by their own parents," or (3) who have completed 
the eighth grade and are not engaged in some useful occupation; 
and such board of directors shall organize such part-time school, 
department, or class whenever there are fifteen (15) minors as 
defined above resident in the district. The courses of study of 
part-time schools, departments, or classes may include, "any sub- 
ject given to enlarge the civic or vocational intelligence," of the 
pupils attending. 

Sec. 2. The board of directors may raise and expend money 
for the support of such part-time schools, departments, or classes, 
in the same manner in which it is authorized to raise and expend 
funds for other school purposes. 

Sec. 3. Such part-time schools, departments, or classes, for the 
attendance of children over fourteen (14) and under sixteen (16"^ 
years of age, shall be organized in accordance with standards 
established by the state board for vocational education, and shall 
provide for not less than eight (8) hours of instruction per week 
during the length of term for which public schools are established 
in the district. Such part-time schools, departments, or classes 
shall be held between the hours of eight (8) o'clock a. m. and six 
(6) o'clock p. m. 

Sec. 4. Whenever any such part-time school or class shall have 
been approved by the state board for vocational education, the 
board of directors shall be entitled to reimbursement on account 
of expenditure made for the salaries of teachers in such part-time 



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schools, departments, or classes, from any federal and state funds 
appropriated in aid of vocational education, as provivded in the 
statutes governing such appropriations. 

Sec. 5. The state board for vocational education is hereby 
authorized to fix standards for the establishment of part-time 
schools, departments, or classes ; to fix the requirements of teach- 
ers, and to approve courses of study for such part-time schools, 
departments, or classes. 

Sec. 6. When such part-time school shall hav.e been estab- 
lished, any parent or person in charge of such minor as defined 
in section 1 hereof who shall violate the provisions of this act 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor 
more than fifty (50) dollars, or any person unlawfully employing 
any such minor shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty 
(20) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, or be im- 
prisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days. 

Sec. 7. The enforcement of this act shall rest with the school 
board in the district in which such part-time school, department, 
or class shall have been established and the state department of 
public instruction through its inspectors and the board of voca- 
tional education through its supervisors of vocational education, 
in conjunction with the county superintendent of schools, are 
empowered to require enforcement of the same on the part of 
school boards. [38 G. A., ch. 94.] 

HOURS THAT CHILD LABOR MAY BE EMPLOYED. 

Section 1. That section two thousand four hundred seventy- 
seven-c (2477-c), supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, be 
arid the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu 
thereof : 

, Sec. 2477-c. No person under sixteen years of age shall be em- 
ployed at any of the places or in any of the occupations recited in 
section 1 hereof before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning 
or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening, and if such person 
is employed exceeding five hours of each day, a noon intermission 
of not less than thirty minutes shall be given between the hours 
of eleven and one o'clock, and such person shall not be employed 
more than eight hours in any one day, exclusive of the noon hour 
intermission; nor shall any such person be employed more than 
forty-eight hours in any one week; provided that whenever in any 
organized school district there shall have been established a part- 
time school, department or class, no person under sixteen years 
of age shall be employed for more than forty hours in any one 
week; nor shall any person under eighteen years of age be em- 
ployed in the transmission, distribution or delivery of goods or 
messages between the hours of ten in the evening and five in the 
morning in any city of ten thousand or more inhabitants. 



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Sec. 2. That all the penalties contained in section two thousand 
four hundred seventy-seven-e (2477-e), supplement to the code, 
1913, be and the same are hereby made applicable to any viola- 
tion of the provisions of section 1 of this act. 

Sec. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall 
take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval 
and publication in the Des Moines Capital and the Des Moines 
News, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 
139.] 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 

Sec. 2682-c. State board of education. The state university, the 
college of agriculture and mechanic arts, including the agricultural 
experiment station, and the Normal School at Cedar Falls, and the 
College for the Blind at Vinton, shall be governed by a state board 
of education consisting of nine members and not more than five of 
the members shall be of the same political party. Not more than 
three alumni of the above institutions and but one alumnus from 
each institution may be members of thi*s board at one time. [34 G. 
A., ch. 141, § 2; 33 G. A., ch. 170,- § 1.] 

Sec. 2682-e. Meetings. The board shall meet four times a year. 
Special meetings may be called by the board, by the president of 
the board, or they may be called by the secretary of the board, 
upon the written request of any five members thereof. [33 G. A., 
ch. 170, § 3.] 

Sec. 2682-f. Organization — powers and duties. The state board 
of education shall have power to elect a president from their num- 
ber; a president and treasurer for each of said educational institu- 
tions, and professors, instructors, officers, and employes, to fix 
the compensation to be paid to such officers and employes ; to 
make rules and regulations for the government of said schools, not 
inconsistent with the laws of the state; to manage and control, 
the property, both real and personal, belonging to said educational 
institutions ; to execute trusts or other obligations now or here- 
after committed to the institutions ; to direct the expenditure of 
all appropriations the general assembly shall, from time to time, 
make to said institutions, and the expenditure of any other 
moneys ; and to do such other acts as are necessary and proper 
for the execution of the powers and duties conferred upon them 
by law. Within ten days after the appointment and qualifica- 
tion of the members of the board, it shall organize and prepare 
to assume the duties to be vested in said board, but shall not 
exercise control of said institutions until the first day of July, A. 
D. one thousand nine hundred nine (1909). [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 4.] 

Sec. 2682-g. Board of regents and boards of trustees abolished. 

The board of regents and the boards of trustees now charged with 
the government of the state university, the college of- agriculture 



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and mechanic arts, and the normal school, shall cease to exist on 
the first day of July, A. D. 1909, and on the same date, full power 
to manage said institutions, as herein provided, shall vest in the 
said state board of education. Nothing herein contained shall 
limit the general supervision or examining powers vested in the 
governor by the laws or constitution of the state. [33 G. A., 
ch. 170, § 5.] 

Sec. 2682-h. Finance committee — officers — duties — term. The 

said board of education shall appoint a finance committee of three 
from outside its membership, and shall designate one of such com- 
mittee as chairman and one as secretary. The secretary of this 
committee shall also act as secretary of the board of education 
and shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board and of the 
committee and carefully preserve all their books and papers. All 
acts of the board relating to the management, purchase, disposi- 
tion, or use of lands or other property of said educational institu- 
tions shall be entered of record, and shall show who are present 
and how each member voted upon each proposition when a roll 
call is demanded. He shall do and perform such other duties as 
may be required of him by law or the rules and regulations of said 
board. Not more than two members of this committee shall be 
of the same political party and its members shall hold ofiice for a 
term of three years unless sooner removed by a vote of two-thirds 
of the members of the state board of education. [34 G. A., ch. 
132, § 1 ; 33 G. A., ch. 170, § 6.] 

Sec. 2682-i, Oath — bond. Each member of the board and each 
member of the finance committee shall take oath and qualify, as 
required by section one hundred seventy-nine (179) of the code. 
The members of the finance committee, before entering upon their 
official duties, shall each give an ofHcial bond in the sum of 
twenty-live thousand dollars ($25,000), conditioned as provided 
by law, signed by sureties approved by the governor and, when so 
given, said bonds shall be filed in the office of the secretary of 
state. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 7.] 

Sec. 2682-k. Business office — employes — monthly visitation. A 

business office shall also be maintained at each of the three educa- 
tional institutions, and the board may hire such employes as may 
be necessary to enable the board to carry qut the purposes of its 
creation, and to assist the said finance committee in the perform- 
ance of its duties, and shall present to each general assembly an 
itemized account of the expenditures of said committee. The 
members of the finance committee shall, once each month, attend 
each of the institutions named for the purpose' of familiarizing 
themselves with the work being done, and transacting any busi- 
ness that may properly be brought before them as a committee. 
[34 G. A., ch. 132, § 3; 33 G. A., ch. 170, § 9.] 

Sec. 2682-u. Biennial report. The board shall make reports to 
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respecting each and every one of the institutions named, includ- 
ing the regular biennial report to the legislature covering the bien- 
nial period ending June 30th, preceding the regular session of the 
general assembly. Said biennial report shall be made not later 
than October 1st, in the year preceding the rneeting of the gen- 
eral assembly, and shall also contain the reports which the execu- 
tive officers of the several institutions are now or may be by the 
board required to make, including, for the use of the legislature, 
biennial estimates of appropriations necessary and proper to be 
made for the support of the said several institutions and for the 
extraordinary and special expenditures for buildings, betterments 
and other improvements. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 19.] 

Sec. 2682-w. College for blind — control transferred. That all 
the powers heretofore granted to and exercised by the board of 
control over the college for the blind are hereby transferred to 
the state board of education and the state board of education is 
authorized and empowered to take charge of, manage and control 
said college for the blind. [34 G. A., ch. 141, § 3.] 

Section 1. School for the deaf — control transferred. All the 

powers heretofore granted to and exercised by the board of control 
over the state school for the deaf are hereby transferred to the 
state board of education, and the state board of education is here- 
by authorized and empowered to take charge of, manage and con- 
trol such school for the deaf. 

Sec. 2. Transfer of funds. All funds now in the hands of the 
treasurer of state to the credit of said school for the deaf are 
transferred from the board of control to the state board of edu- 
cation. [37 G. A., ch. 160.] 

THE STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. 
Act of Congress, July 2, 1862. 

AN ACT donating public lands to the several states and territories wliicli 
may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts. 

Section 1. That there be granted to the several states for the 
purpose hereinafter named, an amount of the public land, to be 
apportioned to each state, a quantity equal to thirty thousand 
acres for each senator and representative in congress to which the 
states are respectively entitled, by the apportionment under the 
census of 1860; provided, that no mineral lands shall be selected 
under the provisions of this act. 

Sec. 2. That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be 
apportioned to the several states in sections or sub-divisions of 
sections, not less than one-quarter of a section ; and whenever 
there are public lands in a state subject to sale at private entry 
at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which 
said state shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands 



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within the Hmits of such state, and the secretary of the interior is 
hereby directed to issue to each of the states in which there is not 
the quantity of pubHc lands subject to sale at private entry at one 
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said state may be 
entitled under this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the 
deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said 
states and the proceeds thereof to be applied to the uses and pur- 
poses described in this act, and for no other purpose whatever; 
provided, that in no case shall any state to which land scrip may 
thus be issued, be allowed to locate the same within the limits of 
any other state, or of any territory of the United States, but their 
assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unap- 
propriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private 
entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less per acre ; and 
provided further, that not more than one million acres shall be 
located by such assignees, in any one of the states; and pro- 
vided further, that no such location shall be made before one year 
from the passage of this act. 

Sec. 3, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, 
and taxes from date of selection of said lands previous to their 
sale, and all the expenses incurred in the management and dis- 
bursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall 
be paid by the state to which which they may belong, out of the 
treasury of said state, so that the entire proceeds of the sales of 
said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to 
the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 

Sec. 4. That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands 
aforesaid by the states to which the lands are apportioned, and 
from the sale of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be 
invested in the stocks of the United States, or of the states, or of 
some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon 
the par value of said stocks; and that the money so invested shall 
constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain for- 
ever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section 
fifth of this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably ap- 
propriated by each state, which may take and claim the benefit of 
this act. to the endowment, support, and maintenance, of at least 
one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding 
other scientific and classical studies, and including military tac- 
tics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agricul- 
ture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of 
the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the lib- 
eral and practical education of the industrial classes in the sev- 
eral pursuits and professions of life. 

[Chapter 108. Statutes at Large, 47th Congress, approved April 26, 
1882. amends this section "so as to permit the state of Iowa, which has 
provided a college in accordance with this act, to loan endowment fund 
belonging to said college, upon real estate security, under such rules and 
regulations as the general assembly shall hereafter provide."] 



112 SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 



Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, that the grant of land and land 
scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, 
to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the 
previous' assent of the several states shall be signified by legisla- 
tive acts : 

First. If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the 
foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon shall, by 
any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be re-' 
placed by the state to which it belongs, so that the capital of the 
fund shall remain forever undiminished, and the annual interest 
shall be regularly applied, without diminution, to the purposes 
mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except that a sum not 
exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any state 
under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase 
of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by 
the respective legislatures of said states. 

Sec. 2645. Grant accepted. Legislative assent is given to the 
purposes of the various congressional grants to the state for the 
endowment and support of a college of agriculture and mechanic 
arts, and an agricultural experiment station as a department 
thereof, upon the terms, conditions and restrictions contained in 
all acts of congress relating thereto, and the state assumes the 
duties, obligations and responsibilities thereby imposed. All 
moneys appropriated by the state because of the obligations thus 
assumed, and all funds arising from said congressional grants, 
shall be invested or expended in accordance with the provisions 
of such grant, for the use and support of said college located at 
Ames. [24 G. A., ch. 6; 20 G. A., ch. 76, § 1 ; C. 73, § 1604; R., 
§ 1714.] 

Sec. 2648. Courses of study. There shall be adopted and 
taught practical courses of study embracing in their leading 
branches such as relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and 
such other branches as are best calculated to thoroughly educate 
the agricultural and industrial classes in the several pursuits and 
professions of life, including military tactics, and, as a separate 
department, a school of mines, in which a complete course in 
theoretical and practical mining in its different branches shall be 
taught. [25 G. A., ch. 107; 20 G. A., ch. 27; C. 73, § 1621.] 

Sec. 2649. Tuition — admission. Tuition in the college herein 
established shall be forever free to pupils from the state over six- 
teen years of age, who have been residents of this state six 
months previous to their admission. Each county in this state 
shall have a prior right to tuition for three scholars from such 
county ; the remainder, equal to the capacity of the college, shall , 
be by the trustees distributed among the counties in proportion 
to the population, subject to the above rule. Transient scholars 
otherwise qualified, may at all times receive"'tuition. [C. '73, § 
1619.] 



SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 113 

Sec. 2673. Sale of liquors. No person shall open, maintain or 
conduct any shop or other place for the sale of wine, beer or 
spirituous liquors, or sell the same at any place within a distance 
of three miles from the agracultural college and farm ; provided, 
that the same may be sold for sacramental, mechanical, medical 
or culinary purposes ; and any person violating the provisions 
of this section shall be punished on conviction by any court of 
competent jurisdiction, by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for 
each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term 
not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprison- 
ment. [C. 73, § 1620.] 

THE NORMAL SCHOOL. 

Sec. 2675. Board of trustees — officers. The normal school at 
Cedar Falls, for the special instruction and training of teachers 
for the common schools, shall be officially designated and known 
as the Iowa State Teachers' College. The treasurer shall give 
bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with good and suf- 
ficient sureties, to be filed with and approved by the secretary of 
state, which bond shall be conditioned for the safe keeping and 
proper disbursement of all money coming into his hands bv vir- 
tue of his office. [33 G. A., ch. 171, § 1 ; 16 G. A., ch. 129, §§'l, 4.] 

Sec. 2676. Powers of board — admission — fees. The board 
shall have power to employ a sufficient number of suitable and 
competent teachers and other assistants ; .fix their compensation ; 
make all necessary rules and regulations for the management of 
the school, the admission of pupils from the several counties in 
the state, giving to each county its proper representation therein 
in proportion to the population thereof, and to all teachers in 
the state equal rights, requiring that each one received as a pupil 
shall furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character and 
the honest intention of following the business of teaching f chool 
in the state ; and make such arrangements as it may for the 
lodging and boarding of pupils, which shall be paid for by them. 
It may charge a fee for contingent expenses not to exceed one 
dollar monthly, and a tuition fee of not more than six dollars a 
term, if necessary for the proper support of the institution, and 
shall determine what part of the year the school shall be open, 
its sessions to continue, however, for at least twenty-six weeks 
of each year. [17 G. A., ch. 142, § 2; 16 G. A., ch. 129, § 5.] 

Sec. 2677. Branches of study. Physiology and hygiene shall 
be included in the branches of study regularly taught to and 
studied by all pupils in the school, and special reference shall be 
made to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics 
upon the human system, and the board shall provide the means 
for the enforcement of the provisions of this section and see that 
they are obeyed. [25 G. A., ch. 1, § 1.] 



114 SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 

Sec. 2678. Contract with school districts. The board may 
contract with the board of directors of the school township or 
independent district in which the school is situated, and those 
contiguous thereto, for a period not exceeding two years at a 
time, to receive the pupils thereof into the State Teachers' Col- 
lege and furnish them with instruction, payment therefor to be 
made out of the teachers' fund of such townships or districts, 
Avhich shall not exceed fifty cents, weekly, for each pupil ; the 
contract to be in writing, and a copy filed with the county super- 
intendent. [25 G. A., ch. 40, §§ 1-3.] 

Sec. 2679. Teachers' reports — tuition. If such a contract is 
entered into, all reports required by law to be made to the board 
of directors of such township or districts and the county super- 
intendent, by the teachers thereof, shall be made by the principal 
of the normal school, and all sums paid for tuition shall go to its 
contingent fund. [Same, §§ 3, 4.] 

Sec. 2680. Report to governor. The board shall biennially, 
through its secretary, make a detailed report to the governor of 
its proceedings during the preceding two years, which report 
shall show the number of teachers employed, the compensation of 
each, the number of pupils and classification, an itemized state- 
ment of receipts and expenditures, and such further information 
with such recommendations. [31 G. A., ch. 125; 22 G. A., ch. 64, 
§2;16G. A., ch. 129, §9.] 

Sec. 2682-b. Reports what to contain. That the secretary of 
the state university, the secretary of the state college of agricul- 
ture and mechanic arts, and the secretary of the State Teachers' 
College be required hereafter to make report to each general as- 
sembly within three days after the said general assembly shall 
have convened. Said reports shall show in plain manner the 
amount available each fiscal year from state appropriations and 
all other sources, for the erection, equipment, improvement and 
repair of buildings, also the funds received from state appropria- 
tions, interest on endowment funds, tuition, laboratory fees, jani- 
tor fees, donations, rent of lands and from all sources whatsoever, 
going to affect the annual income of the support funds of said 
institutions. Any appropriation of funds received for any special 
purpose whatsoever shall also be reported. Hospital receipts and 
sales of departments shall be listed separately. The report shall 
show how the moneys thus received were expended, giving under 
separate heads the cost of instruction, administration, mainte- 
nance and equipment of departments, and the general expenses 
of the institutions. It shall clearly state the number of professors, 
instructors, fellows and tutors, and the number of students en- 
rolled in each course during each year of the biennial period. 
Students attending the short courses shall be reported separately. 
The amount of unexpended balances of departments, remaining 
in the hands of the treasurer, and the amounts undrawn from the 



SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 115 

state treasury on the thirtieth of June of the last year of the 
biennial period shall be given. The report of the secretary of 
the state college of agriculture and mechanic arts shall also show 
the receipts of the experiment station from all sources for each 
fiscal year and how such funds were expended. [33 G. A., ch. 170; 
30 G. A., ch. 104.] 



CONSTITUTION OF IOWA 



ARTICLE 9. 

1. EDUCATION AND SCHOOL LANDS. 2. SCHOOL FUNDS AND 

SCHOOL LANDS. 

Section 1. Under control o£ general assembly. The educa- 
tional and school fund and lands, shall be under the control and 
management of the general assembly of this state. 

Sec. 2. Permanent fund. The university lands, and the pro- 
ceeds thereof, and all moneys belonging to said fund shall be a 
permanent fund for the sole use of the state university. The 
interest arising from the same shall be annually appropriated for 
the support and benefit of said university. 

Sec. 3. Lands appropriated. The general assembly shall en- 
courage, by all suitable means, the promotion of intellectual, 
scientific, moral and agricultural improvement. The proceeds of 
all lands that have been, or hereafter may be, granted by the Uni- 
ted States to this state, for the support of schools, which may 
have been or shall hereafter be sold or disposed of, and the five 
hundred thousand acres of land granted to the new states, under 
an act of congress, distributing the proceeds of the public lands 
among the several states of the union, approved in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and all estates 
of deceased persons who may have died without leaving a will 
or heir, and also such per cent as has been or may hereafter be 
granted by congress, on the sale of lands in this state, shall be, 
and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together wuth 
all rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the general 
assembly may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the 
support of common schools throughout the state. 

Sec. 4. Fines, etc. — how appropriated. The money which may 
have been or shall be paid by persons as an equivalent from 
exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines 
collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws 
shall be exclusively applied in the several counties in which such 
money is paid, or fine collected, among the several school districts 
of said counties, in proportion to the number of youths subject 
to enumeration in such districts, to the support of common 
schools, or the establishment of libraries, as the board of education 
shall from time to time provide. 



118 SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 

Sec. 5. Proceeds of lands. The general assembly shall take 
measures for the protection, improvement, or other disposition of 
such lands as have been, or may hereafter be reserved, or granted 
by the United States, or any person or persons to this state, for 
the use of the university, and the funds accruing from the rents 
or sale of such lands, or from any other source for the purpose 
aforesaid, shall be, and remain, a permanent fund, the interest of 
which shall be applied to the support of said university, for the 
promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be author- 
ized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the 
general assembly, as soon as may be, to provide effectual means 
for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said 
university. 

Sec. 6. Agents of school funds. The financial agents of the 
school funds shall be the same that, by law, receive and control 
the state and county revenue, for other civil purposes, under such 
regulations as may be provided by law. 

Sec. 7. Distribution. The money subject to the support and 
maintenance of common schools shall be distributed to the dis- 
tricts in proportion to the number of youths, between the ages of 
five and twenty-one years, in such manner as may be provided by 
the general assembly. 

An act providing for a different method of distribution of the school 
fund, held unconstitutional as in conflict with the above section. Dist. 
Tp. V. County Judge, 13 Iowa, 250. 



INDEX TO SCHOOL LAWS 



Note. — The subject heads of this index are arranged in alphabetical 
order and the sections referring thereto are given. 



Accounts— 2803, 2780, 2812-f, 2633, 2682-h, 2733-al, 2738, 2761, 2768, 2729. 

Acre— 2814. 

Adjournment — 2771. 

Advertisement— 2828, 2779, 5028-s. ' 

Affidavit— 2818, 2794-aa. 

Age— 2773, 2823-a, 2804, 2789, 2748. 

Agriculture— 2794-b, 2794-c, 2794-d, 2775-a, 2634-bl. 

Agricultural College; see State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 

Aid— 2794-g, 2634-b3, 2794-e, 2794-b, 2794-c, 2794-d, 2794-f. 

Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics— 2677, 2734-d, 2739, 2740, 2775. 

Annual Meeting— 2780, 2829, 2836, 2837, 2778, 2811, 2746, 2749-2754, 2747. 

Apparatus— 2731, 2783, 2765. 

Appeal— 2818, 2821, 2819, 2802, 2820. 

Appointment— 2734-c; 2629, 2628, 2734-b, 2627-g, 2746, 2756, 2627-c, 2751, 

2772, 2748, 2757, 2729, 2758, 2771. 
Apportionment— ^732. 

Apportionment; see Semi-Annual Apportionment. 
Appraisers; see Referees. 
Approved High Schools— 2634-b5, 2634-b4, 2634-b3, 2634-b7, 2634-bl, 2634-b6, 

2634-b4, 2634-b2, 2634-e, 2634-bl. 
Arbitrators— 2802. 

Assets and Liabilities— 2794-af, 2802. 

Attendance— 2804, 2823-a, 2774, 2733-al, 2773, 2803, 2676, 2789. 
Auditor; see County Auditor. 
Auditor of State— 2627-c, 2627-h. 

B 

Balances— 2768. 

Ballot— 2754, 2751, 2755, 2820-d3, 2837, 2794, 2799, 2757, 2794-a, 2797, 2800, 

2771, 2794-af. 
Ballot Box— 2756, 2747, 2794-aa. 
Bank— 2768. 

Barbed Wire— 2740, 2817. 
Bible— 2805. 
Bill— 2738. 
Blind Persons— 2739, 2765. 



120 • SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 

Board of Directors— 2828, 2779, 2802, 2804, 2780, 2817, 2812-d, 2760, 2813, 
2812-c, 2783, 2824, 2793, 2794, 2801, 2788, 2794-ab, 2790, 2780, 2794aa, 
2759, 2772, 2795, 2751, 2752, 2754, 2756, 2794-af, 2778, 2804-a, 2837, 

2781, 2776, 2786, 2778, 2811, 2777, 2794ae, 2782-b, 2757, 2752, 2754, 2797, 
2773, 2795, 2761, 2748, 2758, 2771, 2815, 2774, 2761, 2767, 2775, 2779, 

2782, 2801, 2785, 2798, 2787, 2791, 2792, 2806, 2796, 2811, 2813, 3828, 
2745-2754, 2768-2769, 2782, 2799-2800, 2758, 2784. 

Board of Education; see State Board of Education. 

Board of Education Examiners— 2633, 2634-f, 2631, 2630-c, 2634-a, 2628, 

2629, 2823-p, 2628, 2630-b. 
Board of Regents, State University — 2682-g. 
Board of Supervisors— 2742, 2794-al, 2729, 2728, 2831, 2738, 2753, 2796, 

2807, 2813, 2794-ab. 
Board of Trustees, County High School— 2729, 2730, 2731, 2728, 2732. 
Board of Trustees of Normal School — 2682-g. 
Board of Trustees, Agricultural College — 2682-g. 
Bonds of Person— 2760, 2827, 2768, 2830, 2779, 2682-i. 
Bonds Issued for .School Purposes— 2812-e, 2746, 2823, 2812-f, 2812-d, 

2812-c, 2813, 2820-dl, 2820-d9, 2820-d3, 2820-d4, 2820-d5. 
Books; see Text-books. 

Boundaries— 2801, 2791, 2792, 2794-a, 2793, 2773, 2794, 3798, 2799. 
Branches of Study — 2749, 2772. ' r 

Building— 2779. 



Canvass of Votes— 2746, 2751, 2794-aa, 2728, 2832, 2756, 2794, 2757, 2761, 

2771. 
Certificate of Admission— 2733-al. 
Certificate of Election— 2746, 2756, 2751. 
Certificate of Teacher— County— 2734-c, 2734-p, 2734-d, 2734-h2, 2634-b7, 

2643-hl, 2634-h, 2734-t, 2734-u, 2734-q, 2734-h, 2734-e, 2788, 2734-j, 2734-i. 
Certificate or Diploma— State— 2631, 2634-f-2634-g, 2629, 2630-b, 2734-q, 

2631, 2634-h2. 
Chairman— 2746, 2628, 2833, 2772, 2759, 2751. 
Change of Boundaries; see Boundaries. 
Charts— 2783. 
Child; see Scholar. 

City and Town Districts; see Independent School Districts. 
Civil Township— 2790, 2791, 2793, 2757, 2744, 2800. 
Claims— 2780, 2815, 2634-a, 2742, 2761, 2734-b, 2627-h. 
Clerk of Election— 2746, 2761, 2756, 2751. 
College for the Blind — 2682-w. 
Compensation— 2634-a, 2742, 2778, 2634-b4, 2780, 2682-f, 2824, 2815, 2755, 

2780, 2627-h, 2788, 2731, 2821. 
Compulsory Education — 2823-a, 2823-f, 2823-i, 2823-g, 2823-e. 
Concurrent Action — 2791, 2792, 2803, 2798, 2793, 2799, 2792. 
Condemnation — 2815. 

Conductor of Institute; see Teachers' Normal Institute. 
Consolidated Independent School Districts — 2794-af, 2794-aa, 2794-ac, 

2T94-ae, 2794-ag, 2794-ab, 



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Consolidation of Districts— 2799, 2800. 

Contingent Fund; see Funds. 

Contracts— 2824, 2779, 2803, 2774, 2778, 2785, 2778-c, 2759, 2830, 2794-ac, 
2731. 

Convention— 2742. 

Corporate Name — 2744. 

Corporation; see School District. 

Corporations— 2793-2793-a. 

Costs— 2821, 2834, 2815. 

Counsel— 2759. 

County— 2741, 2803, 2791, 2792, 2832. 

County Attorney — 2740. 

County Auditor— 1072, 2809, 2803, 2831, 2808, 2801, 2833, 2742. 

County Higli School— 2728, 2733, 2732, 2730,. 2729, 2731. 

County Superintendent— 2828, 2820, 2819, 2818, 2765, 2769, 2815, 2803, 
2773, 2833, 2734-u, 2823-f, 2831, 2821, 2740, 2742, 2734-b, 2834, 1072, 
2739, 2734-p, 2734-c 2734-s, 2634-b6, 2734-f, 2777, 2738, 2734-b, 2809, 
'2741, 2766, 2792, 2738, 2825-j, 2830, 2821, 2740, 2742, 2738, 2779, 2787, 
2790, 2791, 2734-bl. 

County Treasurer— 2808, 2738, 2733-al, 2801, 2810. 

Course of Study— 2634-bl, 2776, 2634-c, 2772. 



Deaf and Dumb— 2739, 2769. 

Decision— 2818, 2819, 2624, 2627-C7, 2820. 

Depositories— 2832. 

Deputy— 2734-b, 2627-g. 

Diploma; see Certificate or Diploma. 

Directory— Independent Districts— 2785, 2822, 2758, 2754, 2748, 2770, 2745. 

Director— School Township— 2785, 2778, 2823-f, 2801, 2751, 2786, 2752. 

Dismissal— 2782-c, 2782. 

Distribution— 2823-j. 

District; see School District. 

District Court— 2815. 

District Treasurer; see Treasurer. 

Division— 2802, 2794-af, 2755, 2798, 2801, 2773. 

Domestic Science— 2794-b, 2794-c, 2794-d, 2775-a, 2775-bl. 

Doors— 4994-a9, 2468-k. 

Dwelling; see Residence. 

E 

Educational Examiners; see Board Educational Examiners. 

Election— 2795, 2802, 2754, 2794-aa, 1072, 2831, 2751, 2794-af, 2746, 2836, 

2820-d2, 2798, 2799, 2763, 2820-d3, 2757, 2755, 2747, 2860, 2797, 2794, 

2779, 2812-d 2820-d3, to 2820-d5, 2728, 2733. 
Election Precincts — 2755, 2756. 
Electors; see Voters. 
Elements of Vocal Music— 2823-s, 2823-t. 
Eligibility for Office— 2734-b, 2757, 2748, 2628. 
English Language — 2749. 



122 SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 

Enumeration— 2823-i, 2764, 2627-c8, 2765, 2785. 

Escapes; see Fire Escape. 

Examination— 2734-c to 2734-e, 2734-j to 2734-t, 2634-b6, 2631, 2634-b5, 

2777, 2629. 
Examiners; see Board Educational Examiners. 
Exits- 2468-k. 
Expenses— 2761, 2634-a, 2815, 2803, 2821, 2759, 2734-b, 2742, 2781, 2634-a, 

J 2734-n, 2627-h, 2769, 2780. 
Exposition; see Industrial Exposition. 
Expulsion of Scholar— 2782-c, 2782. 
Extending Corporations — 279:3-a. 



Families— 2785. 

Farm; see Park Life. 

Fee— 2734-p, 2676, 2634-b6, 2734-hl, 2631, 2733-al, 27-38, 2774, 2803, 2821. 

Feeble Minded— 2739, 2765. 

Fences— 2817, 2745-a, 2745-b, 2773. 

Fidelity Companies; see Surety Companies. 

Finance Committee — 2682-h. 

Financial Statement— 2780, 2781, 2769. 

Fines; see Penalty. 

Fire Drill— 2468-k. 

Fire-escape— 4999-a7, 4999-a6, 4999-a9. 

Fires— 2468-k. 

Flag— 2804-a, 2804-b, 2804-c. 

Forfeit— 2817, 2760, 2788, 2741, 2822, 2827. 

Formation of Independent District— 2794, 2794-aa, 2797, 2798, 2799. 

Fraternities; see Secret Fraternities. 

Free Tuition, see Tuition. 

Fuel— 2768, 2785. 

Funds— 2783, 2806, 2768, 2794-a, 2783, 2768, 2808, 2761, 2767, 2769 



Garden— 2814, 2823-u7. 
Governor— 2628, 2627-c8. 
Graded or Union Schools — 2776. 
Graduation— 2634-b7. 
Guardian— 2764, 2804, 2823-a, 2805. 



High School— 2733-al. 
Highways— 2749, 2814, 2750. 
Holidays— 2773, 2782. 



I 



Improvements— 2682-u, 2813, 2816. 

Incumbent— 2754-2757, 2758. 

Indebtedness— 2820-d-l, 2812-b, 2825, 2802, 2811, 1306-b, 2823, 2813. 



SCHOOL LAWS OP IOWA 123 

Independent School District— 2835, 2745, 2781, 2813, 2812-c, 2793, 2744, 

2754, 2794-2794-aa, 2776, 2777, 2795. 
Indorsement — 2768. 
Industrial Exposition — 2786. 
Inspection— 2634-b4. 

Institute Fund; see Teachers Normal Institute. 
Insurance — 2783. 
Interest— 2812-e, 2768, 2767, 2816, 2808, 2813. 



Joint Districts— 2791, 2792. 

Judges of Election— 2746, 2756, 2794, 2794-aa, 2754, 2751. 

Judgment— 2811, 2812-c, 2821, 2820. 

Jurisdiction— 2743, 2823. 



K 



Kindergarten — 2777. 



Land— 2814. 
Language— 2749, 2736. 
Levy of Taxes; see Taxes. 
Liabilities; see Assets and Liabilities. 

Libraries— 2806, 2823-0, 2783, 2823, 2823-n, 2823-r, 2823-p, 2765, 2823-q, 2749. 
Limit of Indebtedness— 2812-e, 2825, 2807, 2758, 2820-dl, 2811, 2783, 
2814, 2813, 2806, 2749. 

M 

Majority Vote— 2832, 2837, 2771, 2751. 2794-af, 2794-aa, 2820-f, 2682-h, 2794. 

2800, 2782, 2797, 2801, 2798, 2782, 2799. 
Manual Training— 2794-c, 2794-d, 2775-a, 2773-bl. 
Maps— 2783. 

Meeting of Directors— 2757, 2806. 
Member of Board; see Board of Directors. 
Minimum Wage— 2778-a, 2778-b, 2778-'C, 2778-d. 
Misdemeanor— 2817, 2760, 2741, 2822, 2834. 
Money; see Funds. 
Music— 2823-s, 2823-t. 

N 

Name — 2744. 

Narcotics ; see Alcoholic Drinks. 

Neglect of Duty— 2827, 2772, 2760, 2822, 2817, 2834, 2782. 

Newspaper— 2755, 2799, 2781, 2828, 2794-aa. 

Nominations — 2754. 

Non-residents— 2774, 2803, 2804. 

Nonuser of Site— 2816. 

Normal Institute; see Teachers' Normal Institute. 

Normal School; see State Teachers College. 

Normal Training in High Schools; see Approved High Scheol. 



124 SCHOOL LAWS OF IOWA 

Notice— 2815, 2819, 2820, 2808, 2795, 2757, 2812-d, 2812-f, 2820-c, 2794-aa, 
2831, 2755, 2794-af, 2836, "794, 2797, 2798, 2799, 2790, 2781, 2800, 2819, 
2815, 2763, 2753, 2751, 2810, 2828, 2782. 



Oath— 2758, 2815, 2760, 2794-aa. 

Office, see Qualification for Office. 

Official Bonds; see Bonds. 

Opinions— 2627-C7. 

Orchard— 2814. 

Orders— 2780, 2768, 2811, 2762. 

Organization— 2746, 2757, 2794^aa, 2833, 2795, 2796,. 2797, 2799, 28X)1, 

2790, 2800, 2782-a, 2682-f, 2751. 
Owner— 2814, 2815, 2816. 



Parent— 2805, 2785, 2823-a, 2764, 2804. 

Park— 2814. 

Park Life— 2823-U7. 

Penalty— 2822, 2760, 2823-f, 2741, 2823-a, 2794-ag, 5028-t. 

Pending Litigation— 2820-dl. 

Petition— 2794-aa, 2794-af, 2728, 2733, 2831, 2794, 2797, 2820-dl, 2800, 2799. 

Physiology and Hygiene — 2775, 2739, 2740, 2677. 

Place— 2819, 2629, 2728, 2730, 2734-c, 2757, 2763-c, 2757, 2751, 2627-clO. 

Plat— 2801. 

Play Grounds— 2823-U4, 2823-u6, 2823-u, 2823-u5, 2823-u2, 2823-ul, 2823-u3. 

Poisons; see Alcoholic Drinks. 

Poll Book— 2756, 2761. 

Poll— 2756, 2754. 

Postage— 2742, 2820. 

Posting of Notices; see Notices. 

Precincts; see Election Precincts. 

President— 2808, 2812-e, 2760, 2768, 2823-f, 2785, 2778, 2759, 2810, 2682-f, 

2757, 2746, 2758, 2772, 2803. 
Principal— 2804-b. 

Property— 2772, 2749, 2750, 2811, 2783, 2773, 2810, 2813, 2765. 
Proposal to Build — 2779. 
Publication; see Newspaper — 2794-aa. 
Pupil; see Scholar. 



Qualification for Office 2627-g, 2729, 2758, 2795, 2771, 2682-c, 2760. 

Qualification of Sureties; see Sureties. 

Questions to Voted On; see Propositions Submitted. 

Quorum — 2771. 



Rate of Taxation; see Taxes. 

Receipts and Expenditures — 2738, 2780, 2781. 



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Record— 2823-q, 2633, 2812-f, 2821, 2789, 2755, 2785, 2736, 2764, 2815, 

2768, 2801, 2761, 2627-(i, 2791, 2819, 2729, 2757, 2761. 
Referees— 2815. 

Register— 2812-e, 2812-f, 2764, 2789, 2755. 

Registrars — 2734-q. 

Registrations of Voters; see Register. 

Renewal— 2634-lil, 2634-i, 2734-g, 2634-b7, 2734-g, 2734-i, 2734-li. 

Reports— 2633, 2739, 2738, 2785, 2809, 2766, 2765, 2682-u, 2627-c8, 2731, 

2769, 2823-g. 

Residence— 2748, 2803, 2804, 2773, 2814, 27S2, 2676, 2747. 

Reversion — 2816. 

Revocation— 2631, 2734-u. 

Right to Vote; see Voters. 

Roads; see Highways. 

Room— 2783, 2734-c, 2777, 2774, 2803. 

Rules and Regulations— 2782, 2782-a, 2772, 2832, 2785, 2837, 2772, 2824, 

2682f, 2794-ag. 
Rural Independent Districts— 2746, 2793, 2744, 2800, 2754, 2793, 2757, 2799. 
Rushing— 2782-d. 

8 

Salaries; see Compensation. " , 

Sale of Property— 2749, 2750. 

Scholar— 2808, 2803, 2773, 2837, 2783, 2782, 2785, 2786, 2772, 2774. 2765, 

2764, 2789, 2804, 2782-a, 2775. 

School— 2804, 2774, 2803, 2765, 2773, 2805, 2823-i, 2734-b, 2772, 2807, 
2776, 2811, 2723, 2744, 2748, 2759, 2780, 2761-2767, 2798, 2814, 2813, 

2765, 2785, 2806, 2789, 2788, 2782. 
School Board; see Board of Directors. 
School Bonds; see Bonds. 

School Books; see Text-hooks. 

School Directors; see Board of Directors. 

School Districts-^2746, 2802, 2803, 2808, 2817, 2771, 2743, 2780, 2757, 2758, 
2773, 2776, 2811, 2723, 2744, 2748, 2759, 2780, 2761-2767, 2798, 2814, 2813, 
2810, 2807 2806, 2792, 2791, 2768-2769, 2799, 2750, 2749, 2747. 

School Elections; see Election. 

Schools for Teachers' Training; see Approved High Schools. 

School Grounds; see Site. 

Schoolhouse— 2779, 2817. 2794-ae, 2772, 4994-a9, 2773-2745-a, 2794-ae, 2783, 
2814, 2763, 2749, 2785, 2753, 2750, 2784. 

Schoolhouse Fund; see Funds. 

Schoolhouse Site— 2817, 2814, 2773, 2745-a-2745-b, 2815, 2816, 2787. 

School Laws— 2627-e, 2770, 2823-j. 

School Month— 2778. 

School Officer; eee Officer. 

School Orders; see Orders. 

School Taxes; see Taxes. 

School Teachers; see Teachers. 

School Township— 2746, 2745, 2744, 2752, 2800, 2790, 2754, 2806, 2785, 2801. 

School Warrants; see Orders. 



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School Week— 12773, 2778. 

School Year; see Year. 

Secretary— 2746, 2819, 2754, 2760, 2812-e, 2729, 2780, 2757, 2785, 2761, 2763, 

2800, 2766, 2760, 2765, 2764, 2763, 2682-c ,2759, 2T51, 2801, 2778, 2772, 

2767, 2771, 2762. 
Secret Fraternities— 2782-a, 2782-d, 2782-c. 

Semi-Annual Apportionment — 2823-n, 2808, 2739, 2627-c8, 2806. 
Sex; see Women. 
Shade Trees; see Trees. 
Sites; see Schoolhouse Site. 
Special Meeting— 2757, 2812-d-2820-c, 2794-aa, 2794, 2798, 2799, 2790, 2763. 

2750, 2797, 2800, 2806, 2682-e, 2801, 2753. 
State Aid— 2634-b3. 
State Auditor; see Auditor of State. 

State Board of Education— 2682-g, 2682-c, 2682-f, 2682-h, 2&82-e, 2682-u. 
State Certificate; see Certificate and Diploma. 
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts— 2648, 2682-c, 2645, 2673, 

2649. 
Statement— 2742, 2781, 2780, 2769, 2733-al. 
State Teachers College— 2682, 2677, 2682-c, 2676. 
State Treasurer; see Treasurer of State. 
State University— 2682-c. 
Stationery— 2742. 
Statistics; see Reports. 
Stimulants; see Alcoholic Drinks. 
Studies; see Course of Study. 

Subdistrict— 2751, 2801, 2785, 2748, 2745, 2752, 2786, 2800, 2753, 2744. 
Subdistrict Meeting— 2751, 2753. 
Subpoenas — 2821. 

Successor in Office— 2628, 2758, 2627-d. 
Suffrage— 2747. 

Suit— 2834, 2827, 2760, 2759, 2822, 2741, 2743, 2759. 
Summer School— 2738. 
Superintendent— 2778, 2804-b. 
Superintendent of Public Instruction— 2624, 2627-f, 2820, 2627-c, 2627-a, 

2794-a, 2794-f, 2809, 2628, 2627-g, 2627-d, 2776, 2627-h, 2820, 2627-b, 

2739, 2833. 
Supervision— 2772, 2735, 2776, 2622. 
Sureties— 2830, 2779, 2824, 2760, 2729. 
Surety Companies — 2830. 
Suspension— 2782, 2782-c. 



Taxes— 2749, 2808, 2813, 2781, 2794-ab, 2759, 2768, 2810, 2806, 2813-b, 2783, 

2753, 2811, 2807, 2813-a, 2807, 2794ae, 2751, 2746, 2767, 2796, 2750, 2730, 

2825, 2747. 
Teachers— 2775, 2834, 2734-b, 2782, 2738, 2788, 2630-b-2734-e, 2734-g, 2629, 

2734-t, 2734-p, 2768, 2804-b, 2634-f, 2468-k, 2823r, 2765, 2676, 2680, 2468, 

2T34-q, 2T72, 2789, 2823-s. 
Teacher's Contract; see Contracts. 



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Teachers' Normal Institutes— 2738, 2627-clO, 2773, 2823-t. 

Teachers' Normal Training; see Approved High Schools. 

Term of Office— 2795, 2758, 2628, 2682-h, 2729, 2745, 2757, 2770, 2754. 

Territory— 2791, 2793, 2794, 2743, 2798, 2790, 2792, 2773, 2796, 2804, 2802. 

Testimony— 2819, 2821. 

Text-books— 2834, 2825, 2824, 2829, 2830, 2831, 2832, 2835, 2825, 2826, 

2827, 2836, 2783, 2833, 2837, 2828, 2783, 2806, 2766, 2731. 
Tie Vote— 2754. 

Time— 2819, 2820, 2782, 2763, 2757, 2751, 2746, 2820-a. 
Tobacco— 2732, 2775, 2772. 
Town— 2794. 

Township; see Civil Township and School Township. 
Transcript— 2821, 2819, 2806. 
Transfer— 2802, 2793, 2792, 2749, 2791. 
Transportation of Children— 2794-ad, 2794-ac, 2774, 2806. 
Treasurer— 2769, 2812-f, 2760, 2757, 2754, 2729, 2780, 2768, 2682-f, 2808, 

2760, 2810, 2771. 
Treasurer of State — 2631. 
Trees— 2787, 2765. 

Trial— 2819, 2820, 2631, 2734-u, 2782. 
Truant Officers— 2823-e, 2823-f. 
Truant Schools— 2823-d. 
Trustees; see Board of Trustees. 
Tuition— 2765, 2803, 2733-al, 2733, 2804, 2676, 2774, 2647, 2629. 

U 

Uniformity of Text-books; see Text-books. 
Union Schools; see Graded Schools. 
University; see State University. 
Unknown Owner; see Owner. 



Vacancy in Office— 2758, 2771, 2729. 

Village— 2794. 

Violation of Rules— 2794-ag. 

Visitation of Schools— 2782, 2734-b. 

Voters— 2746, 2749-2794-aa, 2820-dl, 2812-b, 2832, 2835, 2794-af, 2836, 2797, 

2798, 2799, 2811, 2794, 2755, 2753, 2751, 2829, 2837, ''823-ul, 2823-u5. 
Wage; see Minimum wage. 
Ward— 2804. 
Wards— 2773. 
Warrants; see Orders. 
Water-closets- 2784. 
Witnesses— 2821. 

Woman— 2734-b, 2628, 2748, 2747, 2755. 
Written Contract; see Contracts. 



Year— 2757, 2773, 2764, 2785, 2781, 2765, 2769, 2801, 2806, 2807. 
Youth; see Enumeration, and Scholar. 



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